Jonny Greenwood Quotes
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Concentration alone conquers.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
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I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
