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Quotes by Musician
"I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics."
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"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."
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"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out."
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"The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all."
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"I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years."
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"Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it."
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"People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try."
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"I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities."
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"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."
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"Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue."
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"In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'"
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"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
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"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."
Old,
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"I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us."
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"It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years."
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"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things."
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"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."
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"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
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"I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'"
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"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"
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"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."
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"The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation."
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"When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?"
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"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."
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