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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.
It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.
Sometimes your kids give you that shove out the door to do things that you need. Teenagers are good that way; they keep you in the loop.
Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.
For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.
If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.
I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.
My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!
I truly love 'Gangnam Style.' I guess it's a meme. I feel like it's one of the few times where the meme and the quality combines nicely.
Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.
You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.
As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.
In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.
New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.
I like the fact that a group can become successful, and by way of what you are, you can show up all the other people who are around you.
We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.
When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?"
We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.
We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.
I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.
The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.
I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.
I lost my wife to cancer and I saw the impact of telling my story - this is what happened, this is what God did and why he was faithful.
The quickest way to release heaven on earth is to worship. Worship is the main activity of heaven and the destiny of all created things.
Every dream has a process and a price tag. Those who embrace the process and pay the price, live the dream. Those who don't, just dream.
I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.
My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.
I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.
I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.