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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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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Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right!
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Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.
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To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk sic so low, or grovelled so serenely.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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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.
