Winston Marshall Quotes
We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.
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I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.
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We all have to strive to learn what motivates us, learn from our experiences, and what feels right and what feels wrong. There's a strong component over the years to having formal processes that help to identify lessons that need to be learned, and actions that need to be taken. In other words, how do you find the big idea?
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
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Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are.
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We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.
