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.

Butch Trucks

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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

• 'Give us cash! I steal from the rich and give to the poor! I'm trying to be a myth; give us cash!' 'No, I'm not gonna give you cash.' 'Go on, I steal from the rich. Are you rich?' 'No, I'm … comfortable.' 'That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Good
  • Trying

• 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
  • Winter

• The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Eyes

• The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

  

  Michael Scheuer
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Process

• Ignore the pain, play through it.

  

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Play
  • Pain
  • Ignore

• The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Health

• 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