Rickey Medlocke Quotes
There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I don't believe in regret.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.
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I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.
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The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
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The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
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There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
