"I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe"
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"Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around."
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"The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced."
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
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"I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl."
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"I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted."
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"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."
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"Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life."
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"Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me."
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"It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
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"A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do."
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"I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it."
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"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."
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"In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to."
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"I wanted to see if I could write a good book."
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"I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life."
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"If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry."
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"I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was."
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"I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened."
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