"I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos." - Kris Kristofferson
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"I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell." - Brian Wilson
"There's no outdoing The Beatles." - Brian Wilson
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." - Paul McCartney, born this day in 1942.
"My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me. And I had no idea that I would have any impact on jazz." - Wynton Marsalis
"Ziggy Stardust, the Village People, and punk rock really shaped who I am as a person and as a gay man." - Boy George
There's definitely no 7 second delay on the cup celebration - fucks galore.
"The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind." - Bruce Springsteen
"There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it." - Marc Bolan
"The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners." - Pat Metheny
"I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles." - Jonny Greenwood
"If it keeps on rainin', the levee's gonna break." - Memphis Minnie, 1929 and me, 9:56 PM.
"God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can." - Ginger Baker
Looks like a lot of us are deeply connected to Dr. John. I put up a snippet of my recording from 2013 if you'd like to groove to some Mac Rebennack. https://www.needlesandgrooves.com/threads/live-music-is-better-the-tapers-thread.58/post-33607
"See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea." - Dr. John
"Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever." - Jeff Buckley
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa
"How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do. " - Curtis Mayfield, born this day in 1942.
"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life." - Art Blakey
"It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion." - J Mascis
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