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Quotes by Musician
"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."
86
"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."
86
"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
86
"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."
85
"Control of vibrato helps your musical expression."
85
"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one."
85
"One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road."
85
"Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you."
85
"Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold."
85
"We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution."
85
"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
85
"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
84
"He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously."
Play,
84
"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."
84
"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us."
84
"People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property."
84
"You can be surrounded by people, and still be lonely. You can be understood by people, and still feel unknown."
84
"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."
84
"I love playing to people and seeing them react."
84
"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."
84
"I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!"
84
"I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18."
83
"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."
83
"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."
82
"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times."
82
"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."
82
"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over."
82
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