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Quotes by Musician

"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."

"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."

"I like to look at the songs like they're little movies."

"Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together."

"Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter."

"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins."


"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."

"Little things can make such a big difference during recording."

"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."

"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."

"Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?"

"But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go."

"Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!"
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"So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."

"I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times."

"No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around."

"If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple."

"With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife."

"The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything."

"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."

"When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested."

"But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years."

"A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that."

"One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show."

"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
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