Jake Peavy Quotes
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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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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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.
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Music runs my life. I can't imagine going a day without it.
