Steve Jones (Stephen Philip Jone) Quotes
I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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You cannot rely on other people's support.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
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When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday.
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I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
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No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
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If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?
