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“Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock”

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People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a…

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Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall'…

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I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should…

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The problem now with changes in the music industry is that there's almost no point in making records anymore. The only thing really is…

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I never collected cars as a financial thing; I wanted to go racing, so I chose the cars I wanted to go racing with.…

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The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

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The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a…

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I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

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Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make…

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One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

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When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

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I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

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