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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
- Concentrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can concentrate on my art.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like overdubs, never liked them.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm too old to do things by half.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
- Nov 07, 2020
My God is rock'n'roll.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
- Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take a walk on the wild side.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.
- Fine
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- Nov 07, 2020
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a humanist.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.
- Coleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.
- Composite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020