Gary Larson Quotes
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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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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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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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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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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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 is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.
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We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
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We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
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Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.
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I think the first table read I ever did, my hand was vibrating the whole time.
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
