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Quotes by Musician


"Production is something I've never come to terms with."

"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."


"It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym."

"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."

"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,

"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"

"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."

"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"

"I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards."
Play,

"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."

"You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation."

"I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful."

"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."

"I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility."

"I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world."

"I'm on the right track, baby. I was born this way."

"But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up."

"An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God."

"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there."

"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me."

"As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief."

"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now."

"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."
Jazz,

"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."

"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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