Colin Meloy Quotes
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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I am opinionated and want to be part of the conversations.
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I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'
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I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.
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I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl.
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I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.
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I think that my first poetic impulse is for music; second a definite conception with the ring of the universe...
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My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
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Now everybody let me hear you say 'Ray Ray Ray'. Now spend all your money cause they pay pay pay.
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Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
