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Quotes by Musician
"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins."
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"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."
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"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
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"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."
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"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."
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"I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has."
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"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."
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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
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"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."
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"I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!"
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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material."
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"Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why."
Day,
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"Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating."
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"That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is."
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"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations."
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"But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith."
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"Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark."
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"I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place."
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"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
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"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
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"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."
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"For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard."
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"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
Idea,
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"I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was."
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