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“My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'”
“Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.”
“I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.”
“I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.”
“Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.”
“I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.”
“I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.”
“Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.”
“Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.”
“I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.”
“Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.”
“I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.”
“There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.”
“I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.”
“I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.”
“Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.”
“There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.”
“With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.”
“I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.”
“I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.”