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I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

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I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

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I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

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My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

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Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

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The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

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It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

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The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

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The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

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Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: November 22nd, 1950

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