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“Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.”
“My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.”
“I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.”
“When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.”
“I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.”
“People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?”
“I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.”
“I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.”
“This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.”
“On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.”
“I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.”
“I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.”
“In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.”
“I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.”
“Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.”
“It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.”
“In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.”
“I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.”
“The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.”
“Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.”