top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people."
Standard
Customized
More
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."
Author Name
Personal Development
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos."
First
"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future."
Music
"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."
Life
"It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist."
Class
"I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused."
Expression
"As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs."
Music
"When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people."
People
"If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work."
Work
"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."
Cause
"You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking."
Thought
bottom of page