Stevie Young Quotes
I never thought in terms of career. I just saw it in terms of being able to play and sing and doing what you wanted to, and being a free guy. I never had ambitions to be a star or anything like that. I wanted to do my own thing and do it my way, and people could take it or leave it, which was a pretty arrogant attitude.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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I quite like being who I am.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.
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Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
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I never thought in terms of career. I just saw it in terms of being able to play and sing and doing what you wanted to, and being a free guy. I never had ambitions to be a star or anything like that. I wanted to do my own thing and do it my way, and people could take it or leave it, which was a pretty arrogant attitude.
