Bruce Hornsby Quotes
That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?
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The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
