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"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."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
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"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."
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"I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out."
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"Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me."
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"The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world."
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"I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today."
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"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."
Performance

"I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf."
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"But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can."
Work

"Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive."
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"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man."
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