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" What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead. "
Nikki Sixx
Dead
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" The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records. "
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" I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen! "
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" It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people. "
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