Matt Cameron Quotes
A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
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It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
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I've done a lot of stage in my life, but I never had to dominate a stage for three hours.
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I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.
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We have the tendency of over-legislation regarding women.
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By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
