Nicholas Stoller Quotes
Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Politics is a good thing!
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
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Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad, you know? Sometimes not, but it's kind of weird how that can change.
