Robert Trujillo Quotes
I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.
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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
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I fell in love with Crawford because when she was twenty or twenty five, she would dance and talk and sing and do the things that Peppy's character needs to do.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
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I call it a process of elimination. You're nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there's so many, what I say, 'great ideas.' What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
