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Gavin Rossdale
British
Musician
About the author
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Magic
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#People
#Lawyers
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#People
#Money
#Punk
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Pretty
I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Success
#Pretty
Lyrics are really important for me.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Will
#America
#Care
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Work
#Play
#Night
#Jobs
#England
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Talk
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Success
#First
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Public
#Thinking
#First
#Writing
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Books
#Living
#Literature
#Inspiration
The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Faces
Any reaction is better than none.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Pretty
#Artist
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Time
#Love
#Home
#Road
Being real is what is important.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Being
Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Words
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Play
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Success
#Past
A happy wife is a happy life.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Life
#Wife
I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Time
#Love
#People
#Work
#Hard work
I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#People
#Pretty
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Popularity
I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Pretty
#Heroes
#Sex
#Punk
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Sound
#Personality
I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Love
#Fans
#Music
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Love
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Songs
#Pretty
#Writing
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Songs
#Boss
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Want
#Work
#Hard work
I am really addicted to music.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Music
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
Gavin Rossdale,
British
Musician
#Will
#Feeling