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I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
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Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
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We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.
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My songs grow on people - like warts.
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I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.
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I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
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I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
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The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.
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There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.
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Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
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Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
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There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
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If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.
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I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
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I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.
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I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
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People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.
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I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.
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Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.
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I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.
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It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
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That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.
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I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.
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Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.