Joseph Charles "Joey" Molland Quotes
The reason we ended up breaking up was because of managers, not because the band wanted to break up. The reason all the bad things came about – and they did, and they do raise their head in the Badfinger story – all of that came from the management side of it, not from inside the band.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
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Science brings men nearer to God.
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Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
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There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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I have a good team. It's good to have a good team.
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I certainly support anyone's prerogative to hire or not hire whomever they choose, and I definitely don't want to work for someone who doesn't want me.
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I need to feel happy outside.
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The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.
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I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
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Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
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Those who are made can be unmade.
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The reason we ended up breaking up was because of managers, not because the band wanted to break up. The reason all the bad things came about – and they did, and they do raise their head in the Badfinger story – all of that came from the management side of it, not from inside the band.
