Frank Rizzo Quotes
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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As a promoter, of course, you'd really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even more connected with the band.
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What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
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The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
