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" What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. "

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" I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. "

" I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal. "

" People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? "

" It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. "

" Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world. "

" The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. "

" I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. "

" I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. "

" People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. "

" In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. "

" I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. "

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" I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. "

" I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. "

" I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. "

" It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. "

" Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. "

" Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. "

" This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. "

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" I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously. "

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