Chip Taylor Quotes
It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.
Quotes to Explore
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.
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I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you bash down the walls of some enemy 50 miles away and you take some slaves, you take some cattle, probably a bit of cash too, and then you say goodbye and go home and you probably do the same thing next year - or try to, or they do it to you.
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I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.
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I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
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I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.
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I don't tend to do a whole Instagram theme. I like to capture the moment in front of me and make it look as good as possible!
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Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.
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It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.
