Van Morrison Quotes
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
