Roger Taylor Quotes

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

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• I always wanted pink hair.

  

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• I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

  

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• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

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• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

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• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

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• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  

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• I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

  

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• What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.

  

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• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

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• When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

  

  Roger Taylor Queen
  • Band
  • Lose
  • Get Away