La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait bien de descendre dans les Caraïbes pour continuer sur le thème du reggae. Ils organisèrent un voyage en Jamaïque, où ils jugeaient qu'on pourrait fouiner un peu et puiser dans l'influence roots avant d'enregistrer. Tom croyait fermement au bienfait d'exploiter cette source, et je n'avais rien contre puisque ça voulait dire que Pattie et moi aurions une sorte de lune de miel. Kingston était une ville où il était fantastique de travailler. On entendant de la musique partout où on allait. Tout le monde chantait tout le temps, même les femmes de ménage à l'hotel. Ce rythme me rentrait vraiment dans le sang, mais enregistrer avec les Jamaïcains était une autre paire de manches.

Je ne pouvais vraiment pas tenir le rythme de leur consommation de ganja, qui était énorme. Si j'avais essayé de fumer autant ou aussi souvent, je serais tombé dans les pommes ou j'aurais eu des hallucinations. On travaillait aux Dynamic Sound Studios à Kingston. Des gens y entraient et sortaient sans arrêt, tirant sur d'énormes joints en forme de trompette, au point qu'il y avait tant de fumée dans la salle que je ne voyais pas qui était là ou pas. On composait deux chansons avec Peter Tosh qui, affalé sur une chaise, avait l'air inconscient la plupart du temps. Puis, soudain, il se levait et interprétait brillamment son rythme reggae à la pédale wah-wah, le temps d'une piste, puis retombait dans sa transe à la seconde où on s'arrêtait.


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I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET
At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES
All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET
My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK
Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA
I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON
Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER
There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES
If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL
As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE
There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER
Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU
When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER
Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW
One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER
Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER
'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER
Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW
Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER
Remembering​ ​is​ ​something​ ​God​ ​asks​ ​us​ ​to​ ​do​ ​over​ �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER
Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER
The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER
Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN
I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE
It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER
The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER
You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON
If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER