Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
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Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.
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I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all.
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Right after college, a buddy of mine was moving to Boulder for some summer program, and he was like, 'Come live with me.' And I figured, why not? I love Colorado.
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If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.
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He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.
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I am trying every genre.
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My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
