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With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.
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With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
What if I don't want to sing Purple Rain every time I go on stage? The fans don't want that, either. It's my music, they're my songs.
When I was a Beatle I thought we were the best fucking group in the goddamn world, and believing that is what made us what we were.
Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.
It would be nice to have another shot. Instead of me being a rock singer, I could have done something else. You hope you've done something right, you've spent an awful long time on it, so you better be bloody right. Did you waste a lot of time? Yes, you've wasted a lot of time. Did you use your intellectual and physical gifts? Yes and no. Because I don't think rock and roll is as intellectually taxing as other things. It's not particularly challenging. So you get intellectually lazy. I don't think anyone is ever satisfied with what they've done.
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of innocent victims. There is a tremendous need for relief dollars right now and through this effort each one of us can play an immediate role in helping comfort so many people.
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.