Anthony DeCurtis Quotes
If a musician cares about what he or she is doing, and you show up and care, you can go some place. That will never change. There are a number of ways to approach this, and my favorite is the way we're doing it now - just talking.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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If a musician cares about what he or she is doing, and you show up and care, you can go some place. That will never change. There are a number of ways to approach this, and my favorite is the way we're doing it now - just talking.
