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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
Want
"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."
Father
"I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players."
Life
"Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together."
Time
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
Fire
"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time."
Music
"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."
People
"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
Music
"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in."
Music
"Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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"We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer."
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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."
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