Jeff Healey Quotes
Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
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I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'
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The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
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I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
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I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
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Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!
