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"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."

"Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected."

"The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them."

"Disappointment is the end of an illusion."

"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."

"When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band."

"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."

"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."

"Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught."

"Its not your fault for not being there.Its my fault for thinking you would be."
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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."


"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."


"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."


"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."


"I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song."


"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic."


"People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?"


"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."


"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."


"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
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