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Quotes by Musician
"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
131
"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
131
"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat."
130
"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."
129
"When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings."
128
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
128
"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."
128
"This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well."
Now,
128
"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."
126
"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
126
"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."
125
"But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time."
Time,
124
"He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."
124
"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."
124
"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."
123
"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
123
"A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me."
122
"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
122
"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."
122
"My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles."
122
"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music."
121
"I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right."
121
"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
121
"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."
120
"US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan."
120
"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
120
"I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that."
119
"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again."
119
"All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."
119
"A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No."
119
"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."
118
"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
118
"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."
118
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