Jim Messina Quotes
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When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
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We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!
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I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.
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We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.
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It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
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At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.
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That set it for me that it was possible to capture an audience
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My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
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I realized being together was a bigger thing than any of us alone. So that clinched it for me. That made me want to explore it further.
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From Kenny's perspective, when he came into Loggins and Messina, he had been expecting a solo career, but it turned out to be a duo
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The studying led me to the fact that I really am a songwriter and music is what I love to do, ... I also understood the patterns in my life and discovered that I wasn't so unique. I was very much like many other people who had a choice to get well and leave a narcissistic world or continue to struggle with it.
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We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.
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We've put the word out for a lot of our friends in Hawaii, but we're not going to spoil the surprise
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I didn't want my event to take away from his charity, ... We bought something like $3,000 worth of tickets for his event and I offered to play a few songs with him if he wanted.
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We could now make intelligent, grown-up decisions to keep us from falling into the same trap, ... We're interacting more as friends and companions. We share the same bus, sometimes the same dressing room, and have brought our kids out to share the silliness.
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It was an opportunity to spend some time together, have some fun to create some music and an opportunity for Kenny and me to sit down and do some things we wanted to do, ... The time was right and here we are.
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I think it was just the right moment, ... Kenny was open to it and wanted to embrace old friendships. The door was open.
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This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.
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You get all the girls, ... Maybe I can get all the attention.
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I think that was very good for both of us, ... I think Kenny got to see how people reacted to us, and also he could hear, as could I, a sound that we hadn't heard in 30 years.
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What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought: 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tour
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I was concerned with him losing attendance, because of the conflict of me doing my show, ... So I told him I would lend my name to the benefit, so we could advertise it as 'Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sitting In.'
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It's been great from the start, but I'm realizing that the music has just gotten tighter the more we play together
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One of our canvassers was walking down a driveway last night when he came upon two bears, between a year or two weighing 150 to 180 pounds