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I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Keith Moon is not interested in Jazz and won't ever be a Jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.
Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.
Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.
I didn't even think I would make it that long. I thought I would drug overdose, like Jimi Hendrix. I thank God every day to even be here.
Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.
I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.
In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.
A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.
To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.
I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground.
You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole, there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even economic bondage, is slavery.
We love the idea of really putting on a show. It's not just a band playing on the stage. There's a theatrical element to what's going on.
I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.
I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.
Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.
Yeah and it's over before you know it It all goes by so fast Yeah the bad nights take forever And the good nights don't ever seem to last
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
You don't think about it that often, but you don't realize how many of your friends have come and gone. It makes you feel very fortunate.
Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.
After twelve years in prison, I think I have listened to the radio maybe 30-40 times in all, and only when I have been without even a TV.
If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.
I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that.
I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.
Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.
I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own.