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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.
Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.
If I had something to say about my lyrics, I would say they were about different subjects concerning the darkness and the night.
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.
Everyone loves to complain that there are no real bands on MTV, yet no one wants to step up to the plate and try to change that.
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.
I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.
In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.
Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.
I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending.
The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.
Exactly you had to dress in flannel, and if you were a grunge band, before the grunge thing took off and you said you were METAL.
My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.
When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.
He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.
One road was simple acceptance of life, the other road offered sweet peace. When I made my decision, my vision became my release.
People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?
I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.
When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.