Todd Rundgren quotes

Todd Rundgren is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, acclaimed for his genre-spanning work and innovative music technology. His career encompasses classic albums, experimental projects, and collaborations with a wide array of artists. He is recognized as a pioneer in both pop music production and multimedia performance. Here are 17 of his quotes:

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. (Todd Rundgren)
It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point? View quote
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I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do. View quote
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Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years. View quote
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I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison. View quote
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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. View quote
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So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots. View quote
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It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act. View quote
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Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. View quote
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Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. View quote
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One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album. (Todd Rundgren)
The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist. View quote
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Behind every tree there's a new monster. View quote
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And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe. View quote
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It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with. View quote
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There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that. View quote
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I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. View quote
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