Edgar Winter Quotes
I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.
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It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.
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When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
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I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.
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We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
