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"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."
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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
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"If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it."
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"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work."
Work
"In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it."
Father
"I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18."
Life
"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
Imagination
"Talk about a dream, try to make it real."
Dream
"In America everything's about who's number one today."
America
"Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music."
Music
"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along."
Age
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