I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure.
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“I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure.”
— John Waite · Albums
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“I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure.”
“When I think of a song, I think of it as a beast. You chase these beasts around the room and try to grab them and put them in a tape machine. But they're slippery, and they run away a lot.”
“You can't keep going back to Detroit because you're big in Detroit. You can go maybe once a year and sell it out because everybody loves you and looks forward to seeing you again. You can't go back twice in the same year.”
“My brother was the first in Lancaster to have a Fender Stratocaster.”
“I booked time in Philly Sound, which is an old church in south Philly that has a studio to the side of it that holds about 350 people. On the radio, we announced a free gig, bought about three kegs of beer. That got the audience slightly off of their legs, and we rocked the house.”
“Experience teaches you a few tricks, but energy is key. Its what keeps you pumped.”
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“Somehow, German just vanished at some point. We already started at an early stage to translate our albums, and at some point, we started to write only in English.”
“I joined Elton John's band in '75. He not only allowed me to play the electronic keyboard on his albums, he also let me do the orchestrations. Then I left the band and started producing records. I was not really a popular kind of hit music guy. I was attracted to more esoteric things.”
“I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.”
“I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.”
“When I was younger, I had two of mine own cassette tapes that I burnt up, like constantly I was always listening to. They were two Ricky Skaggs albums.”