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"What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say."
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"I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone."
"His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that."
"People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps."
"If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?"
"If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you'll stay a 3rd class citizen.You're better than that."
"Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents."
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"Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre."
"As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic."
"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."
"What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say."
"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man."
"Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true."
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
"Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes."
"Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America."
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