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The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other...
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.
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You don't find a style. A style finds you...
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.
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If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
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In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, “It's me, your father,” but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.
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Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
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I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
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You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up...
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