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7898 Musician Quotes

It's important to have a life outside the band.

Band Important Life Outside
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Am Does Face I Am
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Asking Barely Child He
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Activity Any Delicious Disagreeable
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I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe!

Being Better Bit Changed
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
Amazing Best Crowd Feeling
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We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

Always Amazing Band Bit
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I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.

Actually Boy Coming Ed Sheeran
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When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

Bit Gets Idea More
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

Although Any Born Brought
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I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Be Careful Both Careful Drink
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Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

Am Being Family Fan
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I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Able Bad Does Enjoy
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The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.

Around Feather Feathers Find
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I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

Always Asked Finally Girl
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I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.

Along Because Cheating Cry
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On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It's not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up.

American Bash Best Bit
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I'm doing a two-hour show every day, so you can eat what you want.

Day Doing Eat Every
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When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

About Does Enjoying Getting
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
I Write Paid Pay Want
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Always Considered Explore Minor
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Fun Guitar More Much
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Back Come Daughter Dog
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

Any Bullets Compared Dungeons
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Amused Amusement Because Friends
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Actually Attention Been Has-Been
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Am Get I Am Older
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Came Go Good Knew
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Always Call Certain Dangerous
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Around Genuine Hanging Known
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And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Either Great Guitar Had
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This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Activity Challenging Get Humans
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Always Close Closed Down
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Heart Man Men Most
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

Certain Need Novels Road
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

Any Before Discard Good
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Became Deeply First Rhythm
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Admired Also Could He
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Chords Cruel English Five
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Always Barrel Bottom Felt
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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

Again Animate Discouraged Elaborate
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Applied Back Body End
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Music is the emotional life of most people.
Emotional Emotional Life Life Most
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Always Man Objective Reach
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I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Ancestors Built Decent Deep
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I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Appreciate Beatles Could Devotion
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As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

About Am Approach End
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