Lars Ulrich Quotes
Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I like music a lot.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.
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I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'
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In order to ensure long-term investment, it is important to make infrastructure as transparent and as bankable as possible - should be a win-win for all.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
