Dickey Betts Quotes
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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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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I'm definitely still wild at heart.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
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When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
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I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.
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Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I'm not sure why, but we didn't have any ice where I lived. It was very hot - a coastal town.
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You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!
