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Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
American Musician
Born: Jun 22, 1948
Guitar Me Music Myself People You
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I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. Todd Rundgren
You Reality Whatever Believe Else Valid Unless Everything Worry Everything Else Some About Never Idea Well Got Demonstration Sparrow Billions Whole Consensus
Behind every tree there's a new monster. Todd Rundgren
Every Tree Monster New Behind
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. Todd Rundgren
Sense Everyday Pleasant Everyday Lives Everyone Ourselves Tell Lies Some Some Things Know Existence Just Order Endure Endures Dishonesty Certain Lives Amount Things
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with. Todd Rundgren
Time Myself Sometimes Mind Reflect Frame Voice Point Put Sing Trying Current May Necessarily
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process. Todd Rundgren
Time Together Strange Long Long Time Fragmentary Way Write Come End Very Very Long Time Quickly Process Then Strange Way Near Things
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented. Todd Rundgren
Myself Song Writing Guitar Everything Ways Kind Record Some Exceptional Songs Since Particular Like Particular Kind Instrumentation Because Quartet Lot Different Much Playing
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character. Todd Rundgren
Character Lie People Invent Easter Outside Had Most Another Understand Bunny America Get Why
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots. Todd Rundgren
People Think Head Like Because Shell Idiots Bunch Just Just Because Gonna Acting Start Pull
The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill. Todd Rundgren
Love God Man Something Only Only Love Like Then Downhill
And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe. Todd Rundgren
Honesty People Believe Examine Only Inescapable Closely Proclaim Who Things
One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album. Todd Rundgren
Together Song Long Year Reflect Too Mood Rather Particular Also Reflected Than Any Hanging Just Unfortunately Little Meant Whole Thing Here Album
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. Todd Rundgren
Myself Change People Experiment Back Rules Tried Online More Recordings Support Come Make Singles Labour Wanted Decided Pace Fruits Available Regular Who Needed
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. Todd Rundgren
People Focus Single Whatever Back Possibly Would Brought Songs Impetus Picking Idea Most Audience Got Am Cherry Bandwidth Behind Certain Radio Whole Download Eventually Albums
So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits. Todd Rundgren
You Worrying Way Promoted About Without Am Survive Get Hits Artist Radio
By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before. Todd Rundgren
Time Organization Pressure First Before Band Living Other Back Top Out Solo Evolved Solo Career Solo Record Record Record Producer Never Had Come Felt Making Came Handsome Done Artists So-Called Janis Joplin Might Worked Producer Albert Career By The Time
I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own. Todd Rundgren
You Face Judgment Own Sense Everything Way Constantly Like Beyonce She Make Sells Stand Your Hard Right
That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way. Todd Rundgren
Try Feeling Ocean Way Frank About Sincere Like Most Capture
I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called 'Arena,' and it was not a particularly bad record - it wasn't a bad record at all, but it was built around a certain concept, which is a guitar quartet, with a little bit of augmentation here and there. Todd Rundgren
Guitar Neglected Bit Bad Record Arena Somewhat Had Head Concept Particularly Around Got Built Quartet Did Which Little Little Bit Then Certain Here
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them. Todd Rundgren
Me Business Listening Own Those Habits Remarkable Instead Obstinate Alter Always How Were Labels Denying Trying Essentially Them Customers Then Ignorant Adapt
When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles. Todd Rundgren
Music Beatles Mind Important Out Something Eclectic Had Simply Got Making Aspect Derived
The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were just another band in what was called the New York scene. Todd Rundgren
Time Punk Band Think Punk Rock Scene Term New Another Rock Were Dolls Did York Just New York Themselves
I don't use any real vintage hardware any longer. That's always been the object as far as gaining control of the studio environment, going back to when I built my first studio, Secret Sound, in New York City. The whole point was to not have to pay studio bills anymore and not be looking at the clock. Todd Rundgren
First Looking Control Pay Back Secret City Object Point Studio Environment Longer New Always Built Sound Real Been Clock York Any Going New York New York City Anymore As Far As Gaining Far Use Bills Whole Vintage Hardware
It's no longer necessary to slave over the vocals. I don't sing the lyrics until I write them, and singing is the very last thing I do. I record the entire track, and then I worry about lyrics and vocals. The music will suggest where the words are going to a certain extent. Todd Rundgren
Music Words Will Singing Lyrics Worry Record Entire About Vocals Write Longer Over Until Sing Track Very Going Where Them Then Certain Certain Extent Thing Necessary Extent Suggest Last Slave
If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything. Todd Rundgren
Faith You Never Know Anything Then Actually
When you come to a place like Kauai, you don't go for a high tech world. Todd Rundgren
You World High High-Tech Come Like Go Place Tech
It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar. Todd Rundgren
Worlds Out Kind Bad Seems Like Around Afar Been Just Just Kind Which Breaking Breaking Bad Then Two
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