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Quotes by Musician

"This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son."

"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."

"There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music."

"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."

"I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record."

"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer."

"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."

"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."

"Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it."

"Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating."

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

"Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself."

"I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me."

"Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think."


"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."


"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."


"I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS."

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."


"I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them."

"One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it."

"I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here."

"Depression is something that makes you lose your sight."

"I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice."
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