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To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

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We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.
Kip Winger
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.
Kip Winger
God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.
Kip Winger
Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.
Kip Winger
I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.
Kip Winger
To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.
Kip Winger
The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
Kip Winger
It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.
Kip Winger
I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
Kip Winger
A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.
Kip Winger
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
Kip Winger
I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.
Kip Winger
In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.
Kip Winger
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
Kip Winger
The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.
Kip Winger
I think it's important to know your limitations too.
Kip Winger
Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!
Kip Winger
We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.
Kip Winger
I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.
Kip Winger
I've studied voice from a few different people for years.
Kip Winger
As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician.
Kip Winger
I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.
Kip Winger
I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
Kip Winger
It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.
Kip Winger
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
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Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
Mike Nichols
Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
Kirstie Alley
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
August Strindberg
Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Josh Lucas
If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city.
Jane Byrne
It takes a lot of energy to teach.
Dabney Coleman
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
John Drinkwater
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.
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