Robby Krieger Quotes

All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.

Robby Krieger The Doors

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • You
  • Nothing

• I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Me
  • Always
  • Horror

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Teenager

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Different
  • Effort
  • Stand

• Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Action

• I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Enjoy

• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Businessman

• When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Fear
  • Face
  • Just

• I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Small
  • Working
  • Got

• The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Necessary

• The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Together
  • Thought
  • Design

• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Person
  • Illusion
  • Meet

• One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Trouble
  • Reasons
  • Anatomy

• I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Songs
  • Answer
  • Neurosis

• I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Black
  • Simple
  • Songs

• When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

  

  George Duke
  • Joy
  • Creativity
  • Album

• When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way and the simplest formation of the band. It's about the gear, and that guitar that one day you will buy. It's a beautiful time. I'm grateful for having that time. Then life flips upside down, all of a sudden you are strapped to a rocket ship, you get a hit, then it is tough to keep grounded.

  

  Joe King The Fray
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Songs
  • Album
  • Skeletons