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Quotes by Musician
"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."
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"I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed."
61
"I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else."
61
"I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!"
61
"Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication."
61
"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."
61
"My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs."
Will,
61
"People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves."
61
"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head."
61
"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."
61
"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great."
61
"In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me."
61
"I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera."
61
"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."
61
"How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony."
61
"I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple."
61
"To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules."
61
"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."
61
"I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is."
61
"When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?"
61
"I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos."
61
"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
61
"I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else."
61
"My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said."
61
"No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band."
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