Matthew "Matt" Montgomery (Piggy D) Quotes
I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older I've gotten, the more collaborations I've gotten. I really enjoy working with other people to create different styles of music, because I really do listen to everything, and I enjoy every kind of music. I think some of the best stuff comes from working with people who have different perspectives on the same thing.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country with more than its share of fair skies, material wealth, and people who are trying not to be as old as they are.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.
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I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.
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Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.
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I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older I've gotten, the more collaborations I've gotten. I really enjoy working with other people to create different styles of music, because I really do listen to everything, and I enjoy every kind of music. I think some of the best stuff comes from working with people who have different perspectives on the same thing.
