- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
- Drummer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
- Diminishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
- Fashion Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
- Big Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
- Peers
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020