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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."
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."
"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."
"Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught."
"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."
"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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"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
"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."
"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."
"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."
"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."
"There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz."
"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."
"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."
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