"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." - Paul McCartney, born this day in 1942.
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"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail." - Charlie Parker
"I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert." - Joe Cocker
"Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way." - Pete Townshend
"When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album." - Mark Mothersbaugh
"The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real." - Robert Fripp
"If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great." - Brian Eno
"I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it." - Ian Astbury
"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." - Stevie Wonder, born this day in 1950.
"Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.” - Henry Rollins
"Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life." - Patti LaBelle
"I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs." - Joan Jett. Amen.
"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight." - Johnny Cash
"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." - James Brown
"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future." - Wayne Kramer of the MC5
"I want to be the first rock band on Mars." - Kate Pierson
Our European friends were so advanced over the US when it came to live music TV programming. I thank you all...
"They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and things." - Tiny Tim, born this day in 1933.
Watch that speed freak
Watch that speed freak
Gonna shoot it up
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