Eric Roberson Quotes
It is beautiful to own your own destiny and be able to do what you feel in your heart. To have that and not do it? THAT is crazy to me.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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The nearest way to God Leads through love's open door; The path of knowledge is Too slow for evermore
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I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.
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In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.
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It is beautiful to own your own destiny and be able to do what you feel in your heart. To have that and not do it? THAT is crazy to me.
