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Night Quotes
"One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed."
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"If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night."
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"I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton."
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"Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night."
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"There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon."
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"I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night."
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"Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone."
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"I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night."
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"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck."
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"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."
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"We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early."
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"I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night."
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"I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week."
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"As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly."
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"You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground."
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"I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night."
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"I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off."
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"And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night."
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"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
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"There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on."
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"His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum."
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"But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning."
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"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."
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"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
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"That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings."
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"I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator."
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"I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president."
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"One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up."
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"If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on."
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"I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything."
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"We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night."
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"Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night."
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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier."
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"I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met."
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"I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder."
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