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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Ian Hunter is the stage name of Ian Hunter Patterson, an English singer-songwriter and musician who is best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople, from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and at the time of its 2009, 2013, and 2019 reunions. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before joining Mott the Hoople, and continued in this vein after he left the band. He embarked on a solo career despite ill health and disillusionment with commercial success, and often worked in collaboration with Mick Ronson, David Bowie's sideman and arranger from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars period.
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
It was a labor of love and they did really well.
Tell the truth.
It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.
You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.
Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.
Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.