Gavin Rossdale Quotes
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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I am really addicted to music.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.