Todd Rundgren Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Todd Rundgren on Wise Famous Quotes.
Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.
So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.
I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison.
I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.
That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.
Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.
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.
It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.
I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.
It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?
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.
People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.
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.
If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.
In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.