John Grant Quotes
When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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Worship should not be primarily about the worship leader up front, but about the worship leader serving as a conduit to allow the family of God to sing together to their Creator.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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I don’t spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that’s great.
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If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.
