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 was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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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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We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
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I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
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Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.
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I feel humbled and really thankful the Lord's blessed us with a great bunch of guys. Any time you get into the playoffs, it's a huge deal. ... I don't know what to say about it, other than: I'm just thrilled. It's hard to get into the playoffs.
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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
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So after Humpfest 06, it was time to play our rock show.
