Butch Vig (Nevermind Man) Quotes
I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, they played shows with Pearl Jam. Even thou the Cosmic Psychos never had the commercial impact or success that those bands had, they were still a major influence on them, and I think a lot of it had to do with the spirit and the sound of their music.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
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An act of thinking without restriction- without boundaries or rules can lead to the point of no return.
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
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The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
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It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.
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It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement.
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I think the Cosmic Psychos were a band that was highly influential on the Seattle so called grunge scene. I know that Kurt and Nirvana were fans, they played shows with Pearl Jam. Even thou the Cosmic Psychos never had the commercial impact or success that those bands had, they were still a major influence on them, and I think a lot of it had to do with the spirit and the sound of their music.
