Roy Wood Quotes
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
Quotes to Explore
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain 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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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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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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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
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My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
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When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
