David Grubbs Quotes
I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?
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As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.
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I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"
