Timothy B. Schmit Quotes
I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.
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My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.
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In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
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I would never watch 'Lost' on TV; I'd just wait until I could get at least five or six episodes in a row. Saved myself a lot of anxiety that way.
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I've been in the 'Idol' bubble, and now it's popped, and I don't know what's going to happen.
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I love school. I was a great student.
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Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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Short on glamour and long on tragedy.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
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I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
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Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy.
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If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.
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We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?
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I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.
