"Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?"

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Source : Paul Shaffer, David Ritz (2009). “We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga”, p.58, Anchor

Paul Shaffer

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“I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.”
“There is no way you can use the word â€œrealityâ€ without quotation marks around it.”
“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”
“I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.”
“Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really careâ€”only when it suits him.”
“Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and itâ€™s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that donâ€™t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.”
“I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you." "Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.”
“Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.”

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