Arnold Adoff Quotes
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.
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Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
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I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
