Colin Meloy Quotes
The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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My mother is my hero.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I love the French horn.
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Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.
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I want to be a major force.
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With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.
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If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
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The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
