Bill Courtney Quotes
Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
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I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.
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I saw Len Hutton in his prime,Another time, another time.
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Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself
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I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.
