Rick Savage Quotes
The most painful thing was falling off the stage in Sydney, Australia on the last song of the set, 'Sugar.' I was bruised all over. I don't know how the guitar survived, much less me.
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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
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I've been on stage since I was eight.
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I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players
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I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.
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Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.
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If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all.
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If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
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The most painful thing was falling off the stage in Sydney, Australia on the last song of the set, 'Sugar.' I was bruised all over. I don't know how the guitar survived, much less me.
