Rick Springfield Quotes

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Rick Springfield

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 23, 1949

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

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Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.

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I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

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I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

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I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

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I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

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I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

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They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

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I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

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I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

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I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

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Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

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I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.

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You know, everybody is dealing with issues.

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I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

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The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

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I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

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I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

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