Irmin Schmidt Quotes
I’m no longer an avant-garde artist, out to shock, I want people to enjoy my music.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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How'm I doing?
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
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People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.
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CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.
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If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
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A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
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The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.
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Honestly, I have been able to accept my father's new relationship because you get to that point with your parents that you realise it's their life, not yours.
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I’m no longer an avant-garde artist, out to shock, I want people to enjoy my music.
