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Quotes by Musician
"When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs."
100
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."
100
"I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs."
99
"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
99
"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
99
"It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here."
99
"India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West."
99
"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
98
"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."
98
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
98
"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."
Hate,
96
"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."
96
"Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size."
96
"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
96
"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
Age,
95
"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."
95
"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."
95
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."
94
"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."
94
"I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences."
93
"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,
93
"About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting."
Want,
93
"I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream."
92
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