Rickey Medlocke Quotes
Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
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Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
