Chuck Brown Quotes
I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
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I think one wants lots of different lives.
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I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.
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When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
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I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.
