Rod Stewart Quotes
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I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
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I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
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The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes.
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Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
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Elvis was the king. No doubt about it.
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You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
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I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.
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I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.
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You know, I had no trouble with the girls.
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I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
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Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.
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Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.
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How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?
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Even the President needs passion.
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You're every love song ever written.
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Whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose.
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
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Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
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I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.
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Tonight's the night. It's gonna be alright.
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I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does the music conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.
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Women like being kissed.
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I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.
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I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.