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Quotes by Musician

"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."


"I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth."

"Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something."


"When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire."

"My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe."


"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor."

"I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"

"My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt."

"I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup."

"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."

"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."


"Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow."


"To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know."

"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

"I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker."

"I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way."

"When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities."

"So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents."

"The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us."

"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."
Sun,


"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."

"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively."
Art,
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