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We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.
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We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
How wonderful operas would be if only there were no singers!
For now the poet can not die,
Nor leave his music as of old,
But round him ere he scarce be cold
Begins the scandal and the cry.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
Professor Milligan will now play his tree! The composition is in a Minor, the tree is in a garden.
There is not a band you can mention that we haven't kicked their ass at one time or another.