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Quotes by Musician
"I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in."
Fame,
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"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
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"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."
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"Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index."
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"There are so many questions to be answered and so many personal compliments that we appreciate so very much."
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"I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?"
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"We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody."
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"Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'"
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"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."
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"Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart."
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"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."
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"The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great."
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"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."
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"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
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"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
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"If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices."
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"Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone."
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"I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good."
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"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
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"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."
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"It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together."
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"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
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"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."
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"I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference."
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"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
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"Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity."
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"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."
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