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Quotes by Musician
"There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago."
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"You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment."
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"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
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"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."
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"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels."
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"We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales."
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"Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it."
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"The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."
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"All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools."
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"That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda."
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"In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful."
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"But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn."
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"Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?"
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"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
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"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?"
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"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business."
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"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
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"Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog."
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"Among many people with you, but I only can see you."
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"I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are."
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"Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme."
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"So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others."
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"I wanted to be successful, not famous."
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"Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real."
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"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then."
Man,
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