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I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me, that's what sampling does in songs; it's making deeper layers for people who know where it comes from, but also referencing another part of my history and my memory or a memory that I have.
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People make careers off of Instagram. So in that sense, it's really good, and you can put yourself out there and be open.
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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I love being a member of KISS.
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I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.
