Canadian Musician Quotations | Page 2

When I sit down at a piano, I feel what's going on in my life and what led up to it. Certain songs are born from that motivation.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

Whatever you feel is going to be truthful and maybe some artists don't feel like their songs are, have the same impact when they're remixed.

We are used to being in the spotlight, so we do not let it bother us. There is so much rubbish written every day, you cannot let it trouble you.

Bob wrote the song during The Basement Tapes time period; we put it on Music From Big Pink. Richard did a great job singing it in falsetto.

Don't get me wrong, we still go out after a gig and hang out late, but we also make sure to go to bed within some point of the day's travel schedule.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

I wanted it to feel like you were in the club and on the dance floor, so that was the approach and I think we accomplished that mission.

So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video.

They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.

It really just puts me right in that moment of the struggle that these people have been through, and I think the story of Aida represents a lot.

It's something I've been working on for about two years and I just finished doing the inking about three days ago, so I'm pretty excited.

It's hard for me to sit around and discuss what I do - I'm used to hearing other people talk about what I do - It makes me very uncomfortable.

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.

Oh, it was amazing. The energy from the people, the warmth of the audience was great and it really was a really, really good show.

There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way.

Not particularly... the reason is because we made a promise to ourselves years ago that whatever we did in the studio we would try to recapture live.

I just bought a bunch of CDs and downloaded them into my I-pod. I bought the Seal record, a Swahili drum album, and there's some original African drums that I listen to before the show.

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

I mean, I love the energy and stuff but it would be nice if there was a good singer that would come along and really captivate everybody.

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.

I like to feel I can use any piece of equipment that strikes me at the time and I don't want to be overly obliging to any company.

I just wanted to do something musical. I had just left a band that was number one at the time on all of the charts, both albums and singles.

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

I certainly listen to my old songs from time to time and I hear the roots of what I'm doing today. But they were written from a young man's viewpoint.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

I could never want to be in a band where the ultimate good job I could do is to really impersonate somebody a lot. What kind of a life is that?

The European car industry is really delivering the type of product that people want to buy, at the price that they are willing to pay.

The first album's influences were James Taylor and Coco, and then they switched to Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling Stones on the second.