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"It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me."
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"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
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"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."
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"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."
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"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
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"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season."
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"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them."
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"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."
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"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years."
Time
"We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music."
Music
"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."
Mother
"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say."
Football
"Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon."
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"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."
Being
"It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things."
Faces
"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
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