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Quotes by Musician
"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
65
"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
65
"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."
64
"A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me."
63
"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
63
"He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."
62
"I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end."
62
"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
62
"I want you to do it right as fast as you can, not fast as right as you can."
62
"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality."
61
"I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice."
61
"But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time."
Time,
61
"I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about."
61
"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."
61
"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas."
60
"Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that."
60
"I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life."
59
"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."
58
"Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it."
58
"One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter."
58
"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."
58
"So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami."
58
"I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me."
58
"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
57
"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that."
57
"Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict."
57
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