Jim McKelvey Quotes
Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.
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There's trials and tribulations in a band.
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Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.
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To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
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Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
