Paul Weller Quotes
When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.
Quotes to Explore
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
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Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
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The people who Bitch about life the most are the people who secretly love bitching
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Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up.
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You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
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It was more possible that the human race possessed some spark of divinity that was worth cultivating than that a mysterious being was up there in the ether somewhere with anthropomorphic qualities of goodness and mercy running the whole show.
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'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.
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The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
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When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.
