"The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno."
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"It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67."
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"Church on time, makes me party."
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"I think every time I said, "I'm working with Nile [Rodgers]," the reaction was, "Oh, great. I love 'Let's Dance.' " I think that's pretty expected. I'm not sure Nile and I went in consciously not to make "Let's Dance." We just wanted to work together again."
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"Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano."
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"Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so."
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"TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive."
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"I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time..."
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"Time may change me, but I can't trace time."
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"I'm not at ease with the word "love.""
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"You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking."
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"Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot."
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"I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television."
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"I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten."
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"Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane."
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"Hitler was the first superstar."
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"For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much."
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"There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden."
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"They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly"
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"That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one."
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