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In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.
Michael Stipe
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Michael Stipe
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 4
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I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
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I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.
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By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.
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Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.
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Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
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When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
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On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
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I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.
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