Benjamin Kowalewicz Quotes
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I'm not coming back to play.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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Where would rock and roll be without feedback?
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And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who seem dedicated to the notion that Terence McKenna can always be improved. I'm extremely grateful for that. The frontiers are enormous in that dimension.
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I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.
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The world needs ditch diggers, too.
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So after Humpfest 06, it was time to play our rock show.
