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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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
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I really love traveling, I love playing.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
