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" I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road. "
Todd Rundgren
Going
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" I've become kind of a haven for people who like pop music, but that's not the only thing they like. They also like music in general and want to be able to expand their own horizons. They haven't completely given up on music and are willing to have somebody mediate new things that are happening in music to them. "
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" By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before. "
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" I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going. "
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Not Knowing
" I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea. "
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" When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop. "
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Blues
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" That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way. "
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" I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people. "
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" I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him. "
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" When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player. "
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School
Listening
" In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for. "
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" Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates. "
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Once
Illusion
" People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas. "
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People
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" So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots. "
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Acting
" It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point? "
Todd Rundgren
Same
Life
Living
" When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles. "
Todd Rundgren
Out
Got
Important
" Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online. "
Todd Rundgren
You
Table
Business
" I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last. "
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Finish
Inspiration
Know
" Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do. "
Todd Rundgren
Everyone
Movement
Music
" One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album. "
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Long
Mood
Together
" If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything. "
Todd Rundgren
Then
Anything
Faith
" My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice. "
Todd Rundgren
You
Myself
Nice
" When you come to a place like Kauai, you don't go for a high tech world. "
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Like
Go
High
" I want to be known as a professional weirdo. There aren't many Salvador Dalis or Buckminster Fullers left. If I become popular enough, I can establish the next step for records. "
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I Can
Enough
" I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison. "
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Eric
Early
Decided
" 'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented. "
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Writing
Song
Myself
" I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do. "
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" So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits. "
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Radio
You
Way
" I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce. "
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Feel
" On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way. "
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" Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. "
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