Richard Marx Quotes

#1. I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.

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#2. Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

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#3. One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

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#4. Too caught up in me to see, I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me. I'll try and show you each and every way I can, now and forever, I will be your man.

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#5. It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

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#6. I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

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#7. I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

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#8. I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

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#9. I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

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#10. When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

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#11. Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

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#12. So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

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#13. I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

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#14. I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

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#15. I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

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#16. In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

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#17. I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

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#18. I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

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#19. It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

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#20. The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

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#21. I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

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#22. But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

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#23. I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

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#24. And to any new fans we made along the way, I say ... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.

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#25. But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

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#26. The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.

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#27. My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

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#28. I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

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#29. As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.

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#30. I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

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#31. I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

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#32. Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you

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#33. To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain

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#34. People take songs so literally.

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#35. I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

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#36. It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line.

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#37. I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

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#38. But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

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