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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 give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."

"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!"

"The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I'm going to be disappointed."

"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."

"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."

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."

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

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

"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
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"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 don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."


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


"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."


"I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously."


"My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth."


"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."


"Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs."


"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."
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