Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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Where is he, the champion and the childOf all that's great or little, wise or wild;Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?
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'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke up, and wrote the song.
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I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
