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		What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
	
	  Natalie Massenet Natalie Massenet
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		Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
	
	  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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		I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
	
	  Zack de la Rocha
			
			
				Rage Against the Machine Zack de la Rocha
			
			
				Rage Against the Machine
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		My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
	
	  J. D. Souther J. D. Souther
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		I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research.
	
	  Jack Dangermond Jack Dangermond
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		Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
	
	  Raf Simons Raf Simons
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		When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
	
	  Katey Sagal Katey Sagal
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		I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
	
	  Flavor Flav Flavor Flav
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		Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
	
	  Malcolm Wilson Malcolm Wilson
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		For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
	
	  Ed O'Brien
			
			
				Radiohead Ed O'Brien
			
			
				Radiohead
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		I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
	
	  Camilla Lackberg Camilla Lackberg
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		I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
	
	  Adam Jones Adam Jones
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		Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
	
	  Natalie Massenet Natalie Massenet
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		The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
	
	  Carlene Carter Carlene Carter
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		I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
	
	  Edgar Winter Edgar Winter
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		My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
	
	  R. Kelly R. Kelly
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		The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
	
	  P. J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke
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		Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.
	
	  Barry Sternlicht Barry Sternlicht
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		The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.
	
	  Ian McLagan
			
			
				Small Faces Ian McLagan
			
			
				Small Faces
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		Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Revisits the Band’s Five Records. Noisey (June 7, 2018).
	
	  Jerry Cantrell Jerry Cantrell
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		I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
	
	  Andrea Corr Andrea Corr
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		I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
	
	  Doug Liman Doug Liman
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		You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.
	
	  Benjamin Watson Benjamin Watson
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		What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
	
	  Eric Reed Boucher Eric Reed Boucher