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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?
The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.
I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.
Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.
I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.
I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.
In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
I always get excited by the idea of adventure, of doing something different.
I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower
Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich.
I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.
Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.
If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.
Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.