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Quotes by Musician
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."
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"A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it."
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"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
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"Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians."
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"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."
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"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been."
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"You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous."
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"I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there."
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"So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time."
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"I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are."
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"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
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"I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me."
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"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
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"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
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"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year."
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"So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours."
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"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
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"I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years."
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"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."
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"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
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"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."
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"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
Myth,
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"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song."
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"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
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"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know."
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"Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more."
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"No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry."
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"So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with."
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