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Todd Rundgren

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Behind every tree there's a new monster. - Todd Rundgren
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When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player. - Todd Rundgren
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Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left. - Todd Rundgren
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There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is. - Todd Rundgren
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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
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We bought property after Iniki in '92. I figured we'd never find better bargains. As it turned out, we didn't get a bargain, but we did find the spot we wanted to live on. It actually took a couple years to secure that spot. Then, after we moved, it took over 10 years to start construction on the house. It's still a work in progress. - Todd Rundgren
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I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles. People don't realize that previous to the Beatles, there really was no such thing as an album artist. People made singles. Then they would put a bunch of those singles together and call it an album. And that was it. - Todd Rundgren
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It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music. - Todd Rundgren
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I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise. - Todd Rundgren
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My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the '60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson's songs. - Todd Rundgren
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You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place. - Todd Rundgren
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I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea. - Todd Rundgren
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That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way. - Todd Rundgren
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I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium. - Todd Rundgren
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If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots. - Todd Rundgren
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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. - Todd Rundgren
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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
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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
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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
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