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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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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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
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You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.
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You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing 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.
