Alex Chilton quotes
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“I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.”
-- Alex ChiltonSource : "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.
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“Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.”
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“Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.”
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“I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.”
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“I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.”
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“Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.”
-- Alex ChiltonSource : "Musician Alex Chilton dies at age 59". www.today.com. March 17, 2010.
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“If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.”
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“Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.”
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“The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?”
-- Alex Chilton
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Source : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”
Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
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“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”
Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
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