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"I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there."
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"It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day."

"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."

"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."

"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers."

"Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!"

"I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager."

"For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio."

"The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team."

"If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager."

"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."
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"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."

"I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it."

"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."

"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."

"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."

"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."

"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."
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