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"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
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"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
"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."
Money
"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
"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."
Music
"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
"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing."
Work
"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."
Culture
"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
Music
"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas."
Music
"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."
Thought
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"Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected."
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"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."
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"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
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"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."
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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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"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
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"The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I'm going to be disappointed."
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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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"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."
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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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