Stephen Stills Quotes
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
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Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.
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If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that’s all you read, like you don’t know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.
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There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
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Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross
