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Quotes by Musician
"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable."
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"If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal."
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"The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s."
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"Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present."
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"We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them."
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"I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say."
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"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."
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"I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural."
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"I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey."
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"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"
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"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
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"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance."
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"There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part."
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"I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way."
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"Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
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"My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more."
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"I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example."
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"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind."
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"So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago."
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"In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show."
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"I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album."
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"Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things."
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"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."
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"Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies."
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