Alex Chilton Quotes

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• I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that…
• Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely…
• Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about…
• I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think…
• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players…
• Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't…
• If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then…
• Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something…
• The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think…
• It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

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