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Quotes by Musician
"I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it."
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"Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics."
63
"If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world."
63
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."
63
"I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it."
63
"What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else."
63
"The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass."
63
"The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl."
63
"I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission."
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"As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them."
63
"I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes."
63
"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."
63
"When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up."
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"Believe in yourself and you're unstoppable."
63
"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."
63
"I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone."
Time,
63
"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."
63
"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."
Moon,
63
"When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those."
63
"It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak."
63
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
63
"If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools."
63
"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right."
63
"When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."
63
"We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again."
63
"I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe."
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
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