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I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.
Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be elected for office.
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.
You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.
Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
I guess I'm the guy from the Beastie Boys. I'm one of the guys from the Beastie Boys. I guess that's what I'll always identify myself as.
Here's a thing that's going to drive me absolutely crazy: the trucks! They can put people on the moon, but they can't make a quiet truck!
For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.
Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?
In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.
I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum
That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.
I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.
Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.
I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
I have long ago accepted that I am a little crazy and a little weird. It wasn't that exciting a revelation though. Turns out everyone is.
Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.
It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.
I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
Everybody in Seattle thought I was the chosen one, musically wise. You know, if anyone was going to make it, it was going to be that guy.
I think Radiohead and Outkast are the two modern popular groups who you can actually say that about. We take inspiration from everywhere.
I grew up in that band. Some people go to college and get a Master's. I went to My Chem academy, and I feel like I graduated with honors.
Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.