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Quotes by Musician
"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."
61
"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'."
61
"My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio."
61
"When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out."
61
"We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid."
61
"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."
61
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
61
"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
61
"When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything."
61
"What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me."
61
"Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young."
61
"When you are younger, you are running on that pure naive adrenalin, you don't have any real responsibility aside from making sure you get there and play. And there's usually someone there to help you do that!"
61
"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."
61
"I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off."
61
"We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do."
61
"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
61
"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
Jazz,
61
"As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there."
61
"I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman."
61
"It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million."
61
"There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better."
61
"It is impossible says our distressed mind; try it, whispers admonishing us, the dream."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
61
"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, 'cause we were born this way!"
61
"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."
61
"Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else."
60
"I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands."
60
"There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up."
60
"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
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