John Grant Quotes
I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.
Quotes to Explore
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.
