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One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

Steve Winwood

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Steve Winwood
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 12
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
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Birmingham
West Midlands
Stephen Lawrence Winwood
Stephen Laurence Steve Winwood
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The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.
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The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!
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Networking is rubbish have friends instead.
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The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.
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I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
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Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.
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Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.
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The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
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Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
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While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.
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The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.
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Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
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One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.
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If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.
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Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
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Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
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Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.
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What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.
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