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" At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing. "
Sound
Doing
Important
" I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone. "
Gray
Think
Long
" If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done. "
Would
Over
My Life
" If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. "
Die
World
Music
" I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting. "
Always
Idea
Got
" I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great. "
Imagery
Like
Great
" I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that. "
Driving
Easy
Living
" I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere. "
Person
Walls
You
" I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way. "
I Believe
Believe
Done
" I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. "
Started
Songwriting
Time
" I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. "
Songs
Written
About
" I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others. "
Others
Student
Time
" Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. "
Tired
Corruption
Know
" No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. "
Fancy
Only
See
" Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. "
Rhythm
Blues
Country
" People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed. "
Pictures
Summer
Thought
" Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time. "
Play
Friend
Brother
" Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done. "
Done
My Life
Life
" What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man. "
Down
Try
Personal
" When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey. "
Dog
Beach
Morning
" When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing. "
You
Reach
Key
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