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 like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.
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The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
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It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
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In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.
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Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.
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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.
