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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
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Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
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Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
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And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
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I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.
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Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?
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I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
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It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
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Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.
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I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.
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It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
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I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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I can never predict what's going to happen.
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In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
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All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
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I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
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Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!
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You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too.
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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I didn't really want to give up music.
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.
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I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
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While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.
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It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
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I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
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I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
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At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
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I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.
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I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
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I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.
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I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
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Performing was terrifying.
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When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
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I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world... That in itself gives you a different perspective.
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