Robert Trujillo Quotes
The great thing about Metallica's music and the lyrics, it's always going to be hopefully a motivating experience.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
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Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.
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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
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The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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Becoming rigid in a chaotic situation is like being caught in a riptide and struggling against it. If you fight, you’ll get exhausted and be swept away. Yoga is like a life raft that teaches us to observe and listen and allow ourselves to be carried by the tide until we find a place where we can safely break its hold.
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The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the 'conventions' of the symbolic system.
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I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.
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The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
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I once watched an angry Zairian official very nearly strip and search the person of a CIA GS 17 who had forgotten to speak politely
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The great thing about Metallica's music and the lyrics, it's always going to be hopefully a motivating experience.
