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

• If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • May
  • Jesus
  • Waiting

• 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

• The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Happiness

• I don't encourage people to litigate when facing discrimination: It is so hard - painful and difficult. It's draining financially, emotionally, and professionally. But when you see that you could be the person who impacts the conversation in a meaningful way - or that you could inspire a few people to feel better about themselves, to speak up, to inspire others, to create this broader wave of change - I don't regret that at all.

  

  Ellen Pao
  • Change
  • Regret
  • Conversation

• When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Drummer

• I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.

  

  Mitchell Joachim
  • Technology
  • Playing
  • Would

• Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

  

  Calvin Cheng
  • Internet
  • Skins
  • Witch

• A drummer is usually like the backbone.

  

  Brody Dalle
  • Drummer
  • Backbone