Dennis Hopper Quotes
'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.
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My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
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I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
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When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
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'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
