H. L. Mencken Quotes
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
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I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
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The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.
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You can't imagine a free market coupled with a dictatorship.
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Forget all you know & learn something every day.
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The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
