Jason Molina Quotes
At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
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Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
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Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
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I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
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Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
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Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
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At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.
