Richard Marx Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• People take songs so literally.

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

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

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• I’ve never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

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• I’ve never written a song that I thought was a hit.

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• I’ve always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

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• I’m now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

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

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  Tags in Music, Understand, Wanted

• I think really what I’m saying is that I thrive on adversity.

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• I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

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• I really didn’t have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

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

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Richard Marx (30)

Birth:	16th September, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Producer, Singer

About

Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard".

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