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Quotes by Musician

"A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that."

"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

"You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group."

"Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately."


"What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!"
Will,

"We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold."


"In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing."

"There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed."

"I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing."

"Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?"
Jazz,

"If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it."

"It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?"
Want,

"Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance."


"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."


"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us."

"Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts."

"There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians."

"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."

"I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years."

"Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely."

"We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it."

"I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hydration."

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."


"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."


"Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach."

"You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology."

"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice."
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