Mat Kearney Quotes
'Nothing Left to Lose' was an album that I wrote in my bedroom, and you don't know who is listening or who cares.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
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I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
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I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.
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You can't go out and press. That's when you're going to make mistakes. Just act like you've done it before.
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One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.
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'Nothing Left to Lose' was an album that I wrote in my bedroom, and you don't know who is listening or who cares.
