Gregg Allman Quotes
I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
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He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.
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Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!
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America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.
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I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
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I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
