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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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With insanity, as with vomit, it is the passerby who receives the inconvenience.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.
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My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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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.
