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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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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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'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
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If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.
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The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.
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There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.
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It can feel isolating to be a mom. I've been one and felt isolated.
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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.
