Ray LaMontagne Quotes
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.
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I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.
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Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?
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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
