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I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.
You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.
You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.
I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.
Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.
The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
It's not as much about the numbers as much as it is that our fans made a mark on this world for us.
I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.
Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.
What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.
I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup.
I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco.
I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans.
Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!
I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.
With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.
Writing a Metallica song is a journey and a process, and it takes time, but that's what's special about it.
FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch’s playing! I have always loved that about him.
Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.
Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often.
Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.
Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.
Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.
I've been wearing Vans since I was a little kid. I wear them on stage, and I grew up skateboarding and surfing.
I think that young people should embrace artists like Lemmy from Motorhead but also be open to different styles.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.
When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?
Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.
If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.