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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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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I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.
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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
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When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance.
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When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.
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So after Humpfest 06, it was time to play our rock show.
