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• ‟ I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

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• ‟ Our audiences were always the most bizarre mix. You'd have a thousand screaming girls in the front of the stage and then ten very serious rock critics in the back of the room going, 'Uh-huh, I think we understand this.'

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• ‟ I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

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• ‟ When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads. They thought all the Raspberries were was players of high-energy rock songs.

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• ‟ The Raspberries was formed as kind of a reaction to prog rock, which we didn't like. 'Let's bring some songwriting and harmonies back to music' And we did that.

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• ‟ If you actually go back and listen to my first album, there are some things on there that are kind of rock 'n' roll.

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• ‟ I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach Boys; a band that could play concise, three-and-a-half minute songs with power and elegance.

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