Steve Taylor (Roland Stephen "Steve" Taylor) Quotes
The music business is almost unrecognizable from two decades ago. I have no idea how anybody makes a living at it without a trust fund.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely, he thought, are the sudden moments of relief that come in the midst of strain, those moments of forgetfulness when we are "teased out of thought" by a bird or a flower or the sight of old roofs in the sun; lovely though so transient, the reversal of those brief moments of misery that visit us even in the midst of joy.
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The music business is almost unrecognizable from two decades ago. I have no idea how anybody makes a living at it without a trust fund.
