- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.
- Hard Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
- Compromised
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.
- Greatest Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have a great time. And then I go to bed, get up and do it all over again. I like my life.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
- Great Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.
- Splash
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.
- Breath
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- Nov 07, 2020