Camile Velasco Quotes
I tried not to, but I couldn't help it. But, he's like a living legend, and you can't believe he's sitting right in front of you, you know? You grow up listening to him, and he's got so many great songs, and all those feelings just piled up on me.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
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A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.
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I tried not to, but I couldn't help it. But, he's like a living legend, and you can't believe he's sitting right in front of you, you know? You grow up listening to him, and he's got so many great songs, and all those feelings just piled up on me.
