Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes
The fact that there isn't a performance right for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.
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I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.
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What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?
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I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.
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Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.
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When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.
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The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.
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The fact that there isn't a performance right for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio means there's hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign income that doesn't come to the artists in America.
