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Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live thing.
Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
Everything I know, I stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young, and Keith Richards. That's how you learn.
So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.
Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!
When I'm riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I'm glad to be alive.
I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.
People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”
My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
You have certain expressions when you write music, a lot of different emotions, a lot of different feelings.
I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.
I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.
The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
I generally don't regret decisions that have poor outcomes for me because that's the best way you can learn.
The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?
I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.
Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.
As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.
Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.
You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no heed.
I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.
Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.
There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have (a relationship), you're always looking for one.
If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'.
At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later.
There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.
One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.
I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.
Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.
One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.