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With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.
We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.'
I'll always have my fan base. I know my actual fans are rockin' with me even when my haircut was messed up. They're never gonna leave.
Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.
When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.
Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.
I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.
They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me
I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.
I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.
But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.
National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.
People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from time to time.
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."
It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.
I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'
And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.
I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.
I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.
At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.
All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.
As long as I can have enough to make the record and pay the mortgage, those were always the two things that were most important to me.
I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.
I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.
I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.
People wanted me to become this cliched Keith Richards, Iggy Pop character. I wasn't expected to marry a beautiful wife and have kids.
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.
I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
I hate click tracks. A lot of people I know like to use click tracks. Like my son is perfect on the click tracks. It makes me to edgy.
I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.
I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.
I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.
That young man that I was in 1988 - I was insecure. Besides making good music, I wanted to be cool; I wanted to be accepted and stuff.
The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.
If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.
If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.
I love [that] you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near... I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.
For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.