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" A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds. "
Rock
Minds
Bands
" He who knows how will always work for he who knows why. "
He
Why
Always
" I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did. "
Man
Vision
Always
" I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me. "
Women
Want
Me
" I grew up on radio, not TV. "
Grew
Radio
TV
" I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults. "
Fault
Faults
Conceited
" In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing. "
Street
You
Down
" I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business. "
Business
Personal
Memory
" It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different! "
Sure
Worse
Better
" It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same. "
Spirit
Kind
Hat
" It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action. "
Always
Find
Action
" I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. "
Make
Enough
Used
" I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. "
Funny
Used
Out
" I've always been very self-motivated. "
Been
Always
Very
" Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. "
You
Restaurant
Looking
" Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. "
Enough
Happiness
You
" Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. "
People
Other
Music
" My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. "
Spirit
Kind
Ambition
" People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage. "
Me
Stage
Tell
" Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely. "
Know
Much
Pretty
" Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. "
Without
Music
Poetry
" The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. "
Tunnel
End
Light
" The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism. "
Thing
Only
Allergic
" The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. "
Self-Improvement
Knowing
Problem
" There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.' "
Advice
You
Say
" The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot. "
Brightest
Spot
Stage
" Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade. "
Keep
Parade
Providing
" When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio. "
Television
New
Brand
" Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did. "
McDonald
Vision
Him
" You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. "
Rock
You
Attention
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