John Philip Sousa Quotes
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.