Bad Company Quotes
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Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
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I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.
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I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.
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Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
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Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
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I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me.
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The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.
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When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.
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I always think the audience should be part of the show.
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Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.
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Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.
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Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
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When I left Free back in 1972, I didn't play 'All Right Now' until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason Bonham, and we were supporting the tribute record we had done to Muddy Waters.
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I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together.
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With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'
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I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.
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You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.
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I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.
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There are just so many people making music out there. I've always promoted the idea that everybody needs to make music. I think the more music there is in the world, the better, but it does make it highly competitive.
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My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.
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Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.
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Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really.
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I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.
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The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.