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Quotes by Musician

"I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity."

"We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage."

"I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music."


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


"Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing."

"The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album."


"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."

"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."

"If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see."


"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."

"Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself."

"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."

"And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old."

"That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?"

"Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it."


"My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have."


"Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me."

"We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States."

"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"


"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."


"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."


"It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record."

"It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots."


"The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given."

"The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group."
Road,

"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television."
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