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I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.
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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
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But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.
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I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
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I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.
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Ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end.
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When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
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All middle men are bad.
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These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.
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Make life an art rather than art from life.
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I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
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Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
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There is irreducible chance in the universe.
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I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
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Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.
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If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
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I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
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I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.