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.

Chuck Ragan

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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.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

  

  Capucine
  • Think
  • Man
  • Myself

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Like
  • Secrets
  • Boxes

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Parents
  • London

• To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Moment
  • Sound
  • Capture

• I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.

  

  Watt Key
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• 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.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Game
  • City

• I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Career
  • You

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• 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!

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • She

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Hero

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Truth
  • Become
  • Pet

• My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's funny to bring this into it, but one thing I always do is have a cup of coffee. I drink the most coffee when I'm writing songs.

  

  Chris Young
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Funny

• My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • Dream
  • Couple
  • Dog

• The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Process
  • Artistic
  • Mythologized

• 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.

  

  Chuck Ragan
  • Giving
  • Road
  • Yourself