Mark McGrath Quotes
I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I get nervous when people say to me, 'I just can't tell any of you Asians apart!' Um, why do you have to tell us apart? Are we gonna be separated for some reason? I can't tell us apart! I was not born with a chip in my neck that would automatically identify every Asiatic person that I would come across. 'beebeebeebeebeep Filipino.'
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It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
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The duty of 'saving' became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.
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It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music.
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I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.
