Butch Trucks Quotes
One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
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The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
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I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind.
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I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.
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Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
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One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
