Charlie Byrd Quotes
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
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Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.
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No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
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I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.
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Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
