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I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.
Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.
And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.
Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.
To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
I went to see Mogwai at the Fillmore, and that was both the loudest and quietest concert I've ever been to.
It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?
The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
I'm a hopeful romantic. In a couple of drinks, I'll be a lucky romantic. That's why they call me Mr. Lucky.
I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.
I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.
Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.
I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.
Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.
For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.
Who doesn't love a little Taylor Swift in their life? You know you need a little Taylor Swift in your life.
I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Charles. He is class, man.
If you have an adversary, you don't have to respect what they're saying, but respect their right to say it.
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
You know, I don't feel fifty. I feel not a day over forty-nine. It's incredible. I'm bouncy, I feel bouncy.
I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.
If you played 'Heavy Rain,' there are very few cutscenes and very few moments where you don't have control.
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.