Chris Johnson Quotes
I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
Quotes to Explore
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.
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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
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Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'
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In those days, I didn't know how guys like Clapton and Beck were getting that searing blues lead sound, so I developed my style to be rhythmic and chord-based, with simple lead lines that you could almost hum.
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Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.
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I encourage everybody and challenge everybody to strive towards their goals. . . . There will be ups and there will be downs, but just keep working towards them and don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it.
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There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.
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If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.
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I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
