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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
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I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
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My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.
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I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.
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Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
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I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I would like to congratulate Steve. It was an extraordinary flight. I'm not very happy about losing my own record but I can't think of a nicer guy to take it.
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Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.
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I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
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People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.
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You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.
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The economy is still in very good shape.
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I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, It's a fucking paltry honour.
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I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.Mick Tay
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When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
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Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
