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Eric Carmen

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[Wikipedia] Eric Howard Carmen was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead vocalist of the Raspberries, with whom he recorded the hit "Go All the Way" and four albums. He embarked on a solo career in 1975 and had global success with "All by Myself," "Never Gonna Fall in Love Aga

Quotes by Eric Carmen

I noticed that on the Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' record they could get away with racy lyrics like that because of how…

Beach

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I can make a record when I think I have a good one.

Good

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Soundtracks are made all the time that die horrible deaths - even soundtracks for popular movies.

Death

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Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.'…

I love

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There was nothing wrong with having teen-age fans, but we were hoping to appeal to a much broader audience than the 13-to…

Appeal

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I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach…

Band

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It gets very lonely out on the road some times.

Journey

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Over thirty-plus years, a certain myth has grown up around the band. And the last thing I ever wanted to do was…

Band

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I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me…

Career

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When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads.…

Everybody

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Well, when the Raspberries ended in early 1975 suddenly I didn't have to write to anybody's strengths or weaknesses. I was completely…

Band

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I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

Expression

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The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty…

Albums

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When I was in the studio doing 'Hungry Eyes,' we had to make it an '80s record, but we wanted it to…

Eyes

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There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there…

Old

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Our aim was to be playable on both AM and FM radio - something no one had done in a while.

Aim

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I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.

Always

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If you want to know more about who I am, just listen to my music.

About

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We didn't want to be tied to that damn teenybopper market. We tried to convince our record company that we could do…

Business

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I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need…

Behind

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I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

Me

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“I feel the magic between you and I”

Greatness

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I was known as a ballad singer who sang melodramatic heavily produced ballads. I'm not known as a mid-tempo singer who does…

Dancing

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When I was 12 years old and first decided I wanted to be a songwriter, the people that I always looked up…

Always

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As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who,…

Always

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