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Quotes by Musician
"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should."
Road,
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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
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"My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more."
21
"From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes."
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"But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"
21
"We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer."
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"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
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"I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour."
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"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
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"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!"
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"If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time."
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"I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers."
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"My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up."
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"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong."
21
"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels."
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"I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance."
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"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."
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"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."
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"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
Jazz,
21
"I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously."
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"I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company."
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"I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums."
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"I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world."
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"I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A."
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