Jason Isbell Quotes
You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us ... we are meant to control the economy.
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I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
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I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.
