Gregg Allman Quotes
When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.
Quotes to Explore
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Free love sounds great.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
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'Dear Reader,' New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015
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Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
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A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
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When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.
