- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My songs are like my kids.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
- Feels
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels great to have a #1 album.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
- Crashed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've crashed my car three times.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
- Nut
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a history nut.
- Boxing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans.
- Jerry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
- High Wire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020