Michael Masser Quotes
I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
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We live because of the dreams.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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I'm running because we need change.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
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We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.
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We[ Papa Roach ]'re always trying to get bigger and bigger. It's weird because I wasn't around when they sold millions of records. Now it's just always about "OK what new people can we get to." We're trying to package up with younger bands like Bring Me the Horizon or Of Mice and Men. Those bands always get talked about, because their demographic is so young. But, actually we are seeing a lot of younger people at shows which is awesome.
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In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.
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I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.
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I left an office at the top of the Pan Am Building, a nine-room apartment, and a farm in Vermont because I was aching inside. It took an analyst to tell me I could write a note of permission to become a musician and sign it.
