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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

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The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

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On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

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I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

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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.

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I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: January 28th, 1945

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