Geoff Zanelli Quotes

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

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• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

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• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

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• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

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• I dress for men.

  

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• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

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• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

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• All my songs are where I am.

  

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• They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

  

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• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  

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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

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• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

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• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

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• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

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• It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.

  

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• When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

  

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• I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

  

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• My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.

  

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• You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

  

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• Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.

  

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• A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

  

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• I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

  

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• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

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• Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

  

  Geoff Zanelli
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