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Quotes by Musician
"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."
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"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."
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"I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich."
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"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."
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"I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen."
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"To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges."
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"I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max."
Time,
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"The way I write, words can means lots of different things."
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"I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously."
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"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."
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"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions."
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"I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man."
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"I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about."
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"And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach."
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"We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians."
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"I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing."
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"In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents."
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"There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling."
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"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
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"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."
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"I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing."
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