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There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.
If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.
I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.
The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.
It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude
I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'
The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young
I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.
We do try to be entertainers, but we're musicians first, and we try to showcase the music.
What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.
Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.
Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.
I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.
Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
God is diverse and inclusive, not limited and exclusive. You're thinking of a Country Club.
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.
I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.
Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.
I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.
We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women