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Quotes by Musician

"Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you."

"I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry."

"There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it."

"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"

"We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world."

"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."

"Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed."
Time,

"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."

"When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week."

"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
Jazz,

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

"Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think."

"In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is."

"Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material."

"You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody."

"I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings."

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

"We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring."

"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."

"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."

"What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops."

"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
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