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- Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
- If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old…
- I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument…
- Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.
- I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
- Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism,…
- What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are…
- When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that…
- I don't really like listening to the radio so much.
- You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
- I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
- Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you…
- My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
- Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's…
- You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually…
- The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the…
- I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
- Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to…
- You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music…
- Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man…
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