Sonny John Moore (Skrillex) Quotes
The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported me since I was 16 and believed in me as a musician. He's been there since Day 1, and there's so much to be said about doing something with people that you love.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.
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Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
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Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
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I've banged half the girls in this room, and that is fuckin' not true. I haven't banged anyone here. I've put my pinky in your butts, couple of you.
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The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported me since I was 16 and believed in me as a musician. He's been there since Day 1, and there's so much to be said about doing something with people that you love.
