Ed Simons Quotes
When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics.
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
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We needed to make a few more plays. I think field position was an issue and not being able to get enough plays when we needed to.
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The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.
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I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
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Every man is his own worst enemy.
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Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them
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I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
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When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
