Jason Molina Quotes
I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.
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I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.
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To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
