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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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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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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I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.
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If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
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The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
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I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
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Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
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When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.
