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My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.
I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies.
I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.
Now, I'm mostly a beer man. When I drink hard liquor, it usually doesn't end the best, so I keep it chill with beer.
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.
If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.
Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.
I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.
There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.
I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.
It's volatile with GNR. Every night, it's anarchy on stage. Who knows what's gonna happen? That's rock n' roll, man.
I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.
The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.
We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you.
Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.
Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can.
When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.
We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.
It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.
I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
I am who I am. There’s no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn’t concern me. Maybe that’s the sexy part.
I'm just making fun music so you can let your guard down and enjoy it, don't worry about what's cool and what's not.
The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.
I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.