Butch Trucks Quotes
To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
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Throw out the rule book. If you like wearing navy and black together, wear it; if you like mixing up gold and silver jewellery, mix it. If you like it, wear it - don't care about what anyone else thinks.
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A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.
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Good musicians are often difficult to hang out with; that's the hardest part, finding people you get on with.
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To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
