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It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
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I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
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The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.
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A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
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I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
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Our vision is that the service providers at the beach will become ambassadors for downtown businesses. There will be no effort to contract with service providers that directly compete with downtown businesses.
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It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.
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That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.
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By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.
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I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!
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I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
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I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.
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It is absolutely beautiful, isn't it? And its a sort of over two years before any of the other recordings she did. That is her singing at the age of 16, and having written those extraordinary lyrics - about whatever they're about.
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The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.
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Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.
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Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned.
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And who knows which is which and who is who.
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I'm full of dust and guitars.
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Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.
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Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
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We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.
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In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.