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Quotes by Musician
"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."
87
"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."
87
"But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time."
Time,
86
"Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life."
86
"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."
85
"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
85
"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."
85
"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."
85
"He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."
84
"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."
84
"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music."
83
"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
83
"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."
82
"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."
82
"So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama."
82
"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."
82
"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."
81
"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."
81
"Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them."
81
"I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it."
81
"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."
80
"I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail."
80
"We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened."
80
"Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that."
79
"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."
79
"It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law."
79
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
79
"I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do."
78
"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."
78
"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."
78
"I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang."
78
"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."
77
"A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me."
77
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