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I had never seen Sepultura live before. This was my first time. I now believe they're the greatest band ever.

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• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Failure

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Band
  • Best

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Support
  • Band

• My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Band
  • Popular

• The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Different
  • Small
  • Band

• I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Nice
  • Band
  • Travel

• 'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Always
  • Possible
  • Greatest

• The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Greatest

• Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Greatest

• The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • May
  • Truth
  • Society

• The hardest part, for me, is being in the band and knowing the way I want certain things to sound, but also having to listen to opinions, and very valid opinions, of my bandmates. So, sometimes, I'll have to have conversations with them as a producer and then conversations with them as a bandmate.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Band
  • Opinions
  • Conversations

• Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.

  

  Bob Corritore
  • Band
  • Cracks
  • Glue

• Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Important
  • Temper
  • Controlling

• The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • High
  • Texas
  • Oil

• People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

  

  Joe Trohman Fall Out Boy
  • People

• I had never seen Sepultura live before. This was my first time. I now believe they're the greatest band ever.

  

  Dez Fafara Coal Chamber
  • Band
  • Greatest