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Quotes by Musician
"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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"When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing."
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"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
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"The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed."
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"People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately."
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"The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give."
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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
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"I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me."
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"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music."
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"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage."
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"I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots."
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"Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover."
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"We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free."
Open,
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"Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in."
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"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."
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"I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades."
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"We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat."
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"I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records."
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"I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference."
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"When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff."
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"I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners."
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"I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have."
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"The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication."
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"I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio."
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"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."
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"It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million."
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"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most."
Man,
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"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."
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