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Quotes by Musician
"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
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"I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow."
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"People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try."
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"It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did."
Fun,
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"My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion."
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"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."
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"I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place."
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"The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that."
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"The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh."
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"I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible."
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"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."
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"I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards."
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"My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing."
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"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
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"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."
Hate,
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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
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"I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album."
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"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."
Old,
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"The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there."
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"The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered."
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"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."
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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
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"I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac."
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"I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more."
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"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."
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