Richard MacDonald Quotes
The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
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Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.
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I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first and foremost. Unless the melody gets stuck in my head, I'll move on. Once I have the musical idea pretty firm, I just try to write words that are incredibly honest and relate to my life on that given night. I'll sit with the music on my headphones and pen and paper all night long until it's done.
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The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.
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I think I've identified as an artist since I was a baby - literally a baby. I made a book of drawings and paintings in pre-school. By the time I got to high school, I was completely enamored with art, doing paintings and portraits at lunchtime. I've been creating in some capacity forever.
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The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
