Ryan Adams Quotes
I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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The technology and tactics of attack have now far surpassed the technology of defense despite the development of highly maneuverable and powerful anti-missiles with nuclear warheads and despite other technical ideas, such as the use of laser beams and so forth.
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Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.
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I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.
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It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.
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I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
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With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.
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I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
