A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
Basically I am just a street kid and all the money I have now has allowed me to buy my freedom.
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
Bessie Smith is an old blues singer I liked a lot. John Lennon has a nice voice.
Children of the Revolution is lightly political in its own way, but I just don't say who it's against, you know? You have the choice to sort it out yourself.
Emotion has to be foremost. when I feel emotional I'm equipped to express myself.
I brought home Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock and the rest is history, as they say. It was the best thing I had ever heard.
I can play piano a bit, bass, organ, melotron. You can play anything if you try.
I don't believe there is security. You could die tomorrow.
I don't like cassettes. They sound terrible. I record on them when I'm in the toilet writing songs, but that's about it.
I don't like telephones.
I don't try to be a star. Some people are just special, marked with something. They know it about themselves.
I don't try to chase after the latest audio stuff.
I feel there is a curse on rock stars.
I knew Jimi Hendrix about 1967 when he first came to England, so I could see him develop, and he was incredible.
I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people can't comprehend.
I loved being out in the city at night. I loved meeting new people all the time. I was always being thrilled by the possibility of what could happen next.
I never understood why people had dark windows in cars. I do now. There are times when attention can be fun. But it's not always like that.
I prefer Jimmy Page to Jeff Beck. I think Eric Clapton is the most tasteful.
I really do feel there are many lives; not just this one.
I suppose most songs would be in E or G. But that's the basic range. I do a lot in C, do some in D. Take you pick.
I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.
I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.
I think you can state a thing so openly it defeats the purpose, which I think John Lennon has done recently.
I want fun now, life is here to enjoy, not to complicate and make difficult.
I'm an old rocker. I used to appreciate Buddy Holly. I once carried Eddie Cochran's guitar for him when I was 8 years old.
I'm not the kind of cat that will OD. I am religious and mentally and spiritually clean. I don't do anything to an excess. I don't have any consuming pain inside me like many pop stars. I don't have a death wish.
I'm obviously not going to be changed because of the success, I haven't been so far. I'm an honest person. I feel periods of great energy and periods of great weariness.
I'm very much a media person. I always have the television on and the sound down when I'm listening to records.
I've always been able to adjust to any sort of situation. If I lost all of my money tomorrow, it wouldn't worry me because I've been about as poor as you can get.
I've never been into the trappings of luxury.
I've never seriously thought about building a home studio like so many rock musicians do.
If you Dolby when you record and then Dolby when you master, you can get a woolly sound.
In the film, Children of the Revolution is 12 minutes long.
It's real hard getting used to another country.
Metal Guru is like one of your local deities, it's a personal god, a superhero, someone who would help you. I was trying to get down some religious sentiment without it being religious.
My first group was Tyrannosaurus Rex, which got together in 1968 and we came to the US in 1969.
Really, everything has to be enjoyable. I don't do it for the money anymore. I'm a millionaire. I have half a dozen cars and a house in England.
Ringo and I are very close friends.
Some of the best classical records I've heard have been 78's.
Some of the Motown things are good. There are lots of good, good black people, like Otis Redding and Buddy Guy.
Some people think because I wear makeup that I am gay. But one thing has nothing to do with the other.
When I play a live gig once a week it helps to recharge me. I'm working on my new sound. Softer but harder, like liquid concrete.
When I was 14, I was a mod fashion model and made weekly appearances on British TV. When I was 17 I was a chauffeur to a rich man in Paris, a professional magician.
When I'm in America I tend to listen to more black stations.
When we play badly I know we're playing badly. I don't care if there's a million kids going mad, I'm not happy.
Without the friends I have around me I'd be in a mental institution. That's a fact.
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