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"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
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"And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser."
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"The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape."
Practice
"We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol."
Alcohol
"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."
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"I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do."
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"I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't."
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"I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter."
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"And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area."
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"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
Discipline
"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."
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