Robby Krieger Quotes
We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.
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In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
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Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.
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We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.
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Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.
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I would expect another Scars album before another System album.
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For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.
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On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
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I look at writing and recording like going to the toilet.
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We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.
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We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.
