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With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.
I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never do it again.
Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.
Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.
You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.
Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush.
Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.
You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.
I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
Stop making the same games about shooting something and driving; try something else. There is a market for that.
To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.
People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.
At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.
I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?
I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.
The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.
I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.
I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.
I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.
The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world.
Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.
This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.