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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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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'Glamour's always special to me; they gave me one of my first U.K. covers, and I was so excited when I found out I got a cover for it, so, I always, always have a special place in my heart for 'Glamour.'
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I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
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So after Humpfest 06, it was time to play our rock show.
