Carl Perkins Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.
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There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
