Lee Ranaldo Quotes
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I love writing songs.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring - From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow - I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone - And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone -
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Well, I'm getting better. It'll never be as it was. It affected the right side of my face. It's no big deal. You look at this guy here, and to think I've got problems.
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"
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To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.
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Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.
