Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
“Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.”
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Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
“Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.”
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“Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.”
“I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.”
“There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.”
“In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.”
“I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.”
“Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution.”
“When you're younger, you have a lot more aggression.”
“Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.”
“I think there's a quiet aggression that you need to have, that presence that you have on the mound, the poise, you know.”
“In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.”
“For me, the association with rock is one of force and anger and aggression. And definitely, in the past, I've made songs that attack like that. But what I usually try to appeal to is peoples' everyday feelings, the things that they're going through as they deal with the system on a one-to-one level.”