Andy Fletcher Quotes
Martin's the songwriter, Alan's the good musician, Dave's the vocalist... and I bum around.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.
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How we vote now will be determined by whether meaningful action can occur on some of the areas that we outlined a few weeks ago.
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You've got what looks like a year-end balance sheet. It's like memorizing an entire Excel file.
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The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.
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It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
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I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
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Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.
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I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
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A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
