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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
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"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say."
Football
"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
Name
"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."
Being
"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."
Thought
"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
Language
"We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music."
Music
"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."
Father
"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
Audience
"Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better."
Now
"It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things."
Faces
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