Chuck Ragan Quotes
On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
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There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
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On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.
