Carl Reiner Quotes
I'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids?
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
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I'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids?
