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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Changing The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
- Fats
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.
- Instead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020