Gail Zappa Quotes
Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
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What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.
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See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
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I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.
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If there is an option to use a real human being and to have a chat with somebody and do your shopping that way, I do try and do that.
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Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.
