Maurice Gibb Quotes
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'
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The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
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So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
