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Quotes by Musician
"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."
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"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better."
58
"And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."
58
"When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster."
58
"I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place."
58
"When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map."
57
"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen."
57
"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
57
"Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year."
57
"I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios."
57
"After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive."
57
"The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason."
57
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
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"I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics."
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"Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87."
57
"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra."
57
"It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me."
57
"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."
57
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz,
57
"I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with."
57
"There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you."
57
"I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock."
57
"Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves."
57
"The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia."
Life,
57
"It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible."
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"Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy."
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"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
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"I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did."
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