Jeff Lindsay Quotes
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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I'll even cut things. Or, I'll guesstimate it, and I'll have my assistant get it hemmed for me because I don't have time.
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Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.
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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
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I searched YouTube for 'deaf music videos' and watched them with the sound muted. I noticed that though you could understand the words being signed, the sense of rhythm was lost. That's when I had the idea to create a video where you could see the sounds you couldn't hear.
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I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.
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In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.
