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"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
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"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
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"There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
Jazz
"I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good."
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"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
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"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that."
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"Hearing the blues changed my life."
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