Jack Irons Quotes
We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
Quotes to Explore
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.
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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
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A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.
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The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mommy pampering. They cut cucumbers and put them on my eyes and my daughter gave me a facial. I'm not even sure what was in it!
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You just don't see Muslims being matter-of-fact Muslim. They're always defined by their Muslim-ness. We're either terrorists, or we're fighting terrorists. I remember seeing 'True Lies' and going, 'Why are we always the bad guys?'
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You have to change on the fly. You have to adapt. It's what I do. It's what wins for me.
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One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.
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Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.
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I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
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Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
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When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?
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That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.
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When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.
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Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
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I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
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We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
