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You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.
Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.
And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.
After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.
What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.
You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.
The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'
When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.
I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.
If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.
There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots
We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.
My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.
When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.
I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.
I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it.
Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.