- Musician | March 23, 1949 -
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek
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The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
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As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
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Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
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Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
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Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
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I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
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People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
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I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
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There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
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Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.
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