D.A. Wallach Quotes
The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow.
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I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
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[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
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You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.
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The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.
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My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
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And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.
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I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.
