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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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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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 was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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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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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
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I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.
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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.
