Bobby Keys Quotes
I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.
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Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions over many centuries. We also help them realize that other Christians have asked the same questions.
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I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
