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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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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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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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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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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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
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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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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
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I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.
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I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
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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.
