Randy Bachman Quotes
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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We are constantly scanning for opportunities.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
