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Quotes by Musician
"I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes."
70
"So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift."
70
"One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change."
70
"Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well."
70
"Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."
70
"I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life."
70
"Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch."
70
"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
70
"I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house."
70
"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."
70
"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
70
"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."
70
"Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more."
70
"I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely."
70
"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."
70
"Every single note on this album is there for a reason."
70
"I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961."
70
"But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along."
70
"I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around."
70
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
70
"I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons."
70
"Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too."
70
"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
70
"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
70
"I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect."
70
"I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners."
70
"If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics."
70
"My gay audience has been with me from the beginning."
70
"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us."
70
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