Jonathan Franzen Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
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Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.
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For the rest of my life, I realise people are going to ask questions of me, but at the end of the day, I am a clean athlete, and I have worked hard.
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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
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When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
