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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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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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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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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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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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.
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I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.
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Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.
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There's so many STP songs that are just classic to me, and just so influential in my musical growth.
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I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.
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A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.
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If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.
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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.
