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So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.
Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.
My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.
Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.
Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.
Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.
I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.
I've masturbated like 5 times in the last 24 hours... it hurts... it's going to fall off.
My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.
I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
Don't be afraid to get stupid and feel it. Remember everyone's looking at me and not you.
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.
The Beatles are great for everybody - they write the songs that made the whole world sing.
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.
I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.
I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.
I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.
The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.
When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.
I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?
I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.