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Quotes by Musician
"Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well."
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"I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band."
63
"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."
63
"A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate."
63
"I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top."
63
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
63
"The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about."
63
"My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys."
63
"But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly."
63
"I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff."
63
"Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope."
63
"Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer."
62
"I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions."
Rest,
62
"I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going."
62
"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
Rest,
62
"I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy."
62
"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
Key,
62
"Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it."
62
"The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music."
62
"Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles."
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"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."
62
"When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one."
62
"Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity."
62
"You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself."
62
"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory."
62
"Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board."
62
"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
62
"I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting."
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"I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in."
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"I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff."
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