H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
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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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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
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I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.
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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
