Jon Gordon Langseth Jr. (Jonny Lang) Quotes
I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.
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Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
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Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.
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I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
