John Densmore Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she's very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
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Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.
