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- Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception…
- If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands…
- Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the…
- Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.
- When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been…
- It's sad when people break up.
- He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.
- Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk…
- As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no…
- I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I…
- I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them…
- It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs…
- What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's…
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