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Quotes by Musician

"I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair."

"I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan."

"We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot."

"I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation."

"If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry."

"You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels."
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"Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up."


"You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important."

"We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada."


"I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from."

"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band."

"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."

"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist."

"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence."

"I think it all comes down to relationships - how I treat my wife, how I treat my kids, how I treat the guys at the grocery store, all aspects of every day, what I'm involved in."

"I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference."

"When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there."

"It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years."

"Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me."

"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."

"If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me."

"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.'"

"We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it."

"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."

"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."


"It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself."

"If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens."
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