Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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Endangered species are our friends.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.
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Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.
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Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.
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It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.
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There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
