Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes
I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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There was something missing. But in my world, there is never time to figure out what is, in fact, missing.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
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Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
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I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
