Blixa Bargeld Quotes
After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it's like we're dead even. It's like people don't know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.
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The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.
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When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.
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I hear music as narrative.
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Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though.
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After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
