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"I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish."
"People who love our record love us even more when they hear us live?playing live is what it is all about and that is our main focus."
"What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section."
"Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today."
"I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records."
"I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done."
"I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake."
"You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy."
"Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave."
"I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that."
"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"
"You can't keep putting out the same record, it has to be better than the last thing you did. You have to find out what sucks, you have to stop doing what sucks... you've gotta find out what you're doing right, and you've gotta do more of that."
"I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make."
"When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing."
"God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!"
"I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage."
"Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record."
"Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, "Cry Cry Cry," went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record."
"For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I."
"For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right."
