Tom Morello Quotes
When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
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In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.
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There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.
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When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.
