Butch Trucks Quotes

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

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• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Career
  • Me
  • Struggle

• I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Admires

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

  

  Eden Sher
  • God
  • Remember
  • Think

• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • I Can
  • Train
  • Bed

• Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Fly
  • Your
  • Loosen

• As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Same
  • Saying
  • Shy

• I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Years

• Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Language
  • Speak

• I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

  

  Hal Linden
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

  

  Maimonides
  • Desire

• At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Wind
  • Bird

• If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Trying

• She does not know how little anyone cares to separate wheat from chaff, when all anyone wants to do is burn a field.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • She

• I swore I'd be done, and that would be the end of it. And now I am. There isn't a single place left on-world that isn't part of the Bitchun Society. There isn't a single thing left that I want any part of.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • World
  • Done
  • Society

• In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Work
  • Beginning

• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Party
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

  

  Butch Trucks