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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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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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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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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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.
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How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
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When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.
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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.
