Gary Larson Quotes
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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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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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I have always believed that what goes around comes around.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.
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Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
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People were so hungry, it does feel like people are re-upping their commitment to the Lord. It’s been powerful every night…we would stop in worship and they would lead.
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There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
