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Quotes by Musician
"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."
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"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."
Age,
42
"People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them."
42
"The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done."
Fact,
42
"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you."
42
"It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985."
42
"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
42
"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."
42
"The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst."
41
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
41
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
41
"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."
41
"It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it."
41
"One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion."
41
"So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it."
40
"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
40
"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."
40
"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."
40
"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."
40
"I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream."
40
"Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person."
40
"Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that."
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