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Quotes by Musician
"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge."
73
"I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them."
73
"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
73
"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."
73
"As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that."
73
"He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety-and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked the latter, like leaves covering a snare. You didn't notice the steel jaws until they were impaled in your flesh, and by then it was already far too late to run."
73
"No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance."
72
"Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late."
72
"There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads."
72
"I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer."
72
"Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today."
72
"I have a very deep and wide relationship with my fans."
72
"Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing."
72
"I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way."
72
"Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines."
72
"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."
72
"I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it."
72
"I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results."
72
"I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer."
72
"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
72
"In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of."
72
"Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret."
72
"Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol."
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72
"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
72
"I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line."
72
"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
72
"I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get."
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