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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
If me and Mike Dirnt are in the same room, it's not quite right if he's not on stage with me.
We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.
So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.
Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.
People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.
There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.
I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.
I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.
I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.
Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.
I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
I disagree that injecting emotion into a game comes at the expense of the playing experience.
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.
The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.
What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.
We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.
I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.
Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.
Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.