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Quotes by Musician
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
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"Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more."
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"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food."
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"Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things."
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"About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting."
Want,
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"I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life."
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"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
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"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
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"When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't."
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"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
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"When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people."
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"My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it."
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"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
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"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
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"If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing."
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"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?"
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"When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight."
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"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
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"When you like something, you should do it all night long."
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"Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them."
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"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."
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"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good."
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"The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously."
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"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
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"I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived."
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"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
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"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously."
Play,
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"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
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