Paul Westerberg Quotes

The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

Paul Westerberg The Replacements

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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

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• It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

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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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• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

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• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

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• Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

  

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• It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Something
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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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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

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  • Time
  • Long
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• The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
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• I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.

  

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• The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

  

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• By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.

  

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• None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

  

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• Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.

  

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• It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

  

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• I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

  

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• The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

  

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• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

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  • Experience
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  • Blind

• David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.

  

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  • Life
  • Together
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• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Home
  • House
  • Small

• The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Soul
  • Mistakes
  • Safe