Brody Dalle Quotes

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

Brody Dalle

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• Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Live
  • Nation
  • Ticket

• Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Kind
  • Fit
  • Diet

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Game
  • Teaching
  • Coaching

• The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Water
  • Sound

• I curate my life in a way. It's always playing on my mind, kind of a love-hate relationship. I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'I wish Facebook wasn't around,' because, you know, it is what it is.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.

  

  Z'EV
  • Time
  • Good
  • Play

• She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

  

  William Penn
  • Wife
  • Half
  • Capable

• I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Understand
  • Blame
  • Grow Up

• No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Adversity
  • Affliction

• Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Reality
  • Practice
  • Perfection

• Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It's all ... political is not the right word, but it's all contrary to different people's opinions of what's right and what's wrong. I think that's really a shame.

  

  Steve Howe Yes
  • Political
  • Fans
  • Word

• Actually, as a Muslim, we believe sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God. And therefore, we believe in submitting to the commands of God.

  

  Anjem Choudary
  • God
  • Sovereignty
  • Submitting

• The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • World
  • Animal
  • Inspiration

• I think celebrities suck.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Suck

• In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - somewhere around there - that doesn't actually have any electronic instruments, no drum machines, nothing. Just a drummer and a piano player and they're playing this house music, but they're actually playing it. I really love that aesthetic and wanted to bring that into the album.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • House
  • Player
  • Listening

• A drummer is usually like the backbone.

  

  Brody Dalle
  • Drummer
  • Backbone