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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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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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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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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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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My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.
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For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.
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I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to have on all my records. Unfortunately, though, I don't write in that vein. I'm better at writing country-rock music because, while I was recording in Miami, the Eagles were working in the studio next door and I was heavily influenced by their soun.
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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.
