Josh Silver Quotes
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
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The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.
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I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.
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When we do something good, people immediately follow it.
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Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.
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Nothing would do more to improve Israel's security or its relations with its neighbors than to bring about a sovereign and contiguous Palestinian state alongside a secure, democratic, Jewish Israel.
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Only be an artist if you have no choice!
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There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
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I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.
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This is slightly stripped back groover. I really enjoy playing tracks that have a slight old school feel but modern production. I pitched down my own voice for the ‘Input-Output” hook and built a groove around it. The track reminds me a little of my track “Get It Done’ and is simple and effective.
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Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
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Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
