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"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
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"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."

"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."

"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"

"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."

"I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots."

"When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes."

"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."

"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit."

"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."
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"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."


"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."


"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."


"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."


"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."


"Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not."


"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."
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