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"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."
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"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
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"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."
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"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."
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"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
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"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
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"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."
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"I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology."
Fashion
"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."
Work
"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas."
Music
"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."
Experience
"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?"
People
"It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends."
Money
"Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world."
Artist
"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."
Singing
"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."
Thought
"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."
Business
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