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Quotes by Musician
"Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with."
60
"I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that."
60
"There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that."
60
"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about."
60
"I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not."
60
"Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song."
60
"When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out."
60
"Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie."
60
"This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason."
60
"I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome."
60
"We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs."
60
"So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill."
60
"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."
60
"Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed."
60
"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
Jazz,
60
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
60
"You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing."
60
"I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of."
60
"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this."
60
"A first love always occupies a special place."
60
"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object."
60
"It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't."
60
"By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero."
60
"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."
60
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
60
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