Jim McCarty Quotes
We were definitely a live band. There were a lot of gigs in those days. The London area where we came from there was probably three times as many venues as there are now.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
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You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
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Self-doubt, which is the artist’s bitterest enemy.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden.
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I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
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When people say, 'You run like a girl; you play like a girl,' it's not what it used to be. That shouldn't be negative. You should be proud to play like a girl.
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I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
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Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.
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I believe that if I wasn't born in this technological and 'social media' era, I would have found another way to express myself.
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We were definitely a live band. There were a lot of gigs in those days. The London area where we came from there was probably three times as many venues as there are now.
