Jonathan Davis (JDevil) Quotes
Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
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In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
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It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.
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I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.
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We didn't have any goal set, but we knew we had to work with someone who had a complete, almost encyclopedic knowledge of music. We wanted to make an album that sounded completely different but still had the heart and soul of the band. It's still The Strokes, but it's a very different form of The Strokes.
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Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
