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It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.
There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.
I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.
The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.
I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.
Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.
Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.
All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.
Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.
Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.
Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.
My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.
When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.
I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.
Yesterday love was such an easy game for you to play. But now let's face it, things are so much easier today. Let it be like yesterday.
Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.
I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.
This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!
I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.
There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.
At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.
Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.
Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.
He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.
The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.
I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.
When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing
Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog-big as a donkey. ... I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ... I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ... Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.