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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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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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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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.
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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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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?"
