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The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
I'm not saying I know everything about love. I'm still trying to figure out girls... I don't think we'll ever totally figure out girls.
My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.
If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'
Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.
You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.
I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.
Love your heart. It really is to love yourself to begin with and help everybody else in doing the same. But the heart being the center.
Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.
If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.
I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.
Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.
We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.
I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.
Naturally, if I'm singing over really loud music, my approach is gonna be different than if I'm singing over some quiet acoustic music.
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
Rarely do I ever think of my music as inspired but I guess it must be. Perhaps I would use the word "crockpotted" or "pressure-cooked".
I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.
I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.
In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.
The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.
I'm sure that I am enjoying my sobriety. And respect it. If you've been through what I've been through, then you really do treasure it.
I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'
I've always been very happy with my role in Radiohead. You're very much a part of everything, but you're much more of a shadowy figure.
I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.
'Ravi' means 'sun.' It's a Sanskrit original word. And 'Shankar' is another name of Shiva, one of the holy trinity god that we worship.
Yesterday love was such an easy game for you to play. But now let's face it, things are so much easier today. Let it be like yesterday.
When you part your lips that way, I want you night and day. When you squeeze my balls so tight, I wanna blow my load with all my might.
For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.
I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
Horror movies are always a solid dollar. But a movie about Groucho Marx is a gamble. These things just are. Doesn't matter who you are.
I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.
I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.