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Quotes by Musician
"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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"Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water."
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"Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it."
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"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."
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"But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years."
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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"So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers."
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"I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
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"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
Jazz,
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"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."
Time,
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"It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point."
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"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that."
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"Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material."
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"You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody."
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"We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction."
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"They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly."
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"Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it."
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"What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops."
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"My faith always has been and always will be important to me."
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"Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight."
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"Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled."
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"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."
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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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"Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark."
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"Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?"
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"Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it."
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