John Corabi Quotes
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.
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Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
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No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.
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I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
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Every band has an 'off' night once in a while - that's gonna happen.
