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Quotes by Musician
"I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing."
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"But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony."
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"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
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"I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants."
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"If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault."
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"Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem."
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"We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody."
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"I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids."
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"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."
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"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."
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"I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine."
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"As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box."
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."
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"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
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"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."
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"I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own."
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"If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same."
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"Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it."
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"The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups."
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"One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening."
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"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
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"I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit."
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"I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups."
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"I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred."
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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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"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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"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience."
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