Richard Marx Quotes

• And to any new fans we made along the way, I say… welcome to our party. It’s just starting to get going.

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• As a songwriter, there’s nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn’t really celebrate, because it wasn’t right. Luther wasn’t standing next to me, to receive the award.

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• But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

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• Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

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• But I’m just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

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• But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

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• I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn’t realize I was gone.

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• I can’t wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I’ve decided to keep my day job too.

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• I didn’t want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

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• I don’t think I’ve ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

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

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

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

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

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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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• 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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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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