Irmin Schmidt Quotes
Germany was very strict; there was this phrase ‘serious music’. But in New York, there was no barrier – people were only interested in whether music was wild and interesting and beautiful.

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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.
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You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
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To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
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Ch. 2 Relativity
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On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed.
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I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
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Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.
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We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
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When in doubt, do it.
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That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed.
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Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.
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Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.
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Germany was very strict; there was this phrase ‘serious music’. But in New York, there was no barrier – people were only interested in whether music was wild and interesting and beautiful.