Chad VanGaalen Quotes
My original intention was to use it just for improvised, soundscape-y stuff, but I ended up falling in love with it. So I put it on a lot of the songs. It's not anything that I'm proficient on, but in the studio, if I spend a day working it, I can shimmy my way around.
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If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.
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I’m curious about that myself! Obviously there’s more songs which I’ve been writing, and my approach is much the same. I’ll find out when I get back to it.
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My original intention was to use it just for improvised, soundscape-y stuff, but I ended up falling in love with it. So I put it on a lot of the songs. It's not anything that I'm proficient on, but in the studio, if I spend a day working it, I can shimmy my way around.
