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Even in 1971, J. Geils was into the Stones. When I heard Geils, I realized that a lot of other people hearing them had never heard the Stones.
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We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.
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I think if you're going to a concert and spending $15 for a ticket for you and your girlfriend, then you're going to buy a T-shirt, and you end up spending close to $100 a night, what with gas in the car and anything else to get you in the spirit of things, I just think that people deserve their money's worth.
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So everybody is trying to play like Eddie Van Halen. I think it's rubbish. I think Eddie's great, but everyone's trying to do what he does and it doesn't make for a lot of interesting music.
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Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.
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When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.
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I do keep my eyes and ears open but I don't spend a lot of time looking at what other people are doing to see how I can fit in.
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Following the example of Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger, I wanted to have a band, a sound and a personality, yet maintain a singular position of being able to control and motivate the flow of things.
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I always wanted to merge heavy metal with pop music, but I think that because I grew up more with pop, the Beatles and the Stones, I tended to affiliate myself with those projects.
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I was a good-looking, sexy guy. That certainly didn't hurt in promoting my music.
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There's a time that you realize that you're not gonna get out of a room without playing certain songs.
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Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes on in the business world.
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I guess I could sit around and say, 'Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,' but it doesn't happen.
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I take songwriting very seriously and I wouldn't want anything I do to be construed as frivolous or mundane.
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I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.
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If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.
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I was always regarded as being better than ninety percent of the kids in school, but I was also something of a loner.
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The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.
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I had great trouble believing in myself, so I didn't believe in my success - I didn't enjoy my success, which I thought was insane.
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I tend to be very methodical for a variety of reasons. I'm more of a plodder.
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I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.
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I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't even want to have around.
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I was a mess… It's like ‘Rock Me Tonite' is an MBA course on how a video can go really wrong.
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I'd always envisioned ‘The Big Beat' leading off ‘The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good… but I had no idea just how good.
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I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd go home and go to music school.
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For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.
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I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.
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When you're on stage playing, when I plug in a guitar and chord, I'm 16 years old again. I feel the same excitement. It's very overwhelming. It engulfs you.
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I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.
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