"In a way, I created Utopia as a……" — Todd Rundgren
"In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for."
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73 Quotes by Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always…
- Behind every tree there's a new monster.
- There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole…
- And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the…
- Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all
- Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that…
- Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules…
- One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I…
- I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and…
- Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.
- Look upon yourself only with compassion.
- People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?
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