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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  

  Jim McCarty Box of Frogs
  • Live
  • Band
  • Area