Alex Gaskarth Quotes
It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.
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It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because it's your own thing. It's weird to sit down to listen to it to enjoy it.
