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Quotes by Musician
"I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast."
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"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."
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"I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova."
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"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter."
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"I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act."
Act,
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"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."
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"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation."
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"We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression."
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"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."
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"Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help."
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"I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance."
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"We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other."
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"I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough."
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"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."
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"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."
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"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."
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"There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out."
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"Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights."
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"I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere."
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"Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in."
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"We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together."
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"People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something."
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"I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A."
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"Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?"
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"However long the song is was how long it took us to write it."
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"It can always be transformed into an avenue of information."
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"Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone."
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"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."
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"I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record."
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"Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation."
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"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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