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I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that.
Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
I can't imagine doing anything cooler or better than what we did on 'The Stage' and felt like we're firing on all cylinders.
Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'
Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.
My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.
That Hollywood 'LotR' movie really sucked, and was a true turn-off. That's what Hollywood always does, even to good stories.
I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe.
Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.
The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.
The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.
When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.
I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.
It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.
Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.
Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.
Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.
Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you.
If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.
Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of the best times in our lives together.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.
My dad could hold a tune. He wasn't necessarily a singer, but he did love music, and he listened to it quite loud in the car.
I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.
Everything kills you, you're dying everyday. You're either dying everyday or you're living every day and I'm living everyday.