From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into the blues, jazz and classical. I always had a pop sensibility. I mean I'm making records to sell em
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I never keep them when I make them, so I make a habit of not making them. Once you make them, they're so hard to keep. . . . I used to smoke and used to say, 'OK, that's it,' but 10 minutes later, you're lighting a cigarette.Dave Mason
If the record company won't let you put a record out, then you've nothing to promote, and they're not going to help you out with the tour budget if you've nothing to promote. So basically we were kind of trapped. And all the songs we would have written would have been owned by Mercury until they released us. So what do you do It's kind of like a prison sentence. You are at their beck and call a little.
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They have to be heard. It is a little hard to talk about music. They're just good songs. It's something you need to hear. It's like trying to describe a painting.
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We're happy that we got this little stay of execution, so to speak. It'll give us some time to get all our ducks in a row, to take on whatever they throw at us in the future.
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