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"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
Life
"A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception."
Perception
"You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works."
Change
"I don't think nostalgia has to be negative."
Negative
"When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now."
People
"You've got to separate the singer and the songs."
Music
"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."
Cards
"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
Attention
"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
Imagination
"I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity."
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"I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop."
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"Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet."
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"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."
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"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."
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"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."
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