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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I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
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When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.
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We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.
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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
