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Quotes by Musician
"After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible."
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"I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed."
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"No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band."
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"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."
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"I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else."
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"The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time."
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"When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year."
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"Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know."
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"When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg."
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"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
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"I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way."
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"People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy."
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"I like to look at the songs like they're little movies."
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"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."
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"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."
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"I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians."
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"In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody."
Past,
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"Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound."
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"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
18
"I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation."
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"I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal."
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"The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on."
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"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."
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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
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"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."
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