David Pajo Quotes

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

David Pajo

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• I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Expression
  • Audiences

• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Life
  • America
  • Free

• I don't watch a lot of television.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Television
  • Watch
  • Lot

• I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Fun

• I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Amazing

• As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Management

• I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Music
  • Comedy

• The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Food

• You can only make money doing what you love.

  

  James Altucher
  • Money

• Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Good
  • Why
  • Strong

• Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Band
  • Leaves
  • Coffin

• There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.

  

  Vittorio De Sica
  • Past
  • Film
  • Negative

• A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

  

  Euripides
  • Children
  • Hateful
  • Second Wife

• If you love animals, don't eat them.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Love
  • Animals
  • Eat

• People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Problem
  • Chess
  • Mathematics

• I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.

  

  Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Movie
  • Forest
  • Lit

• I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Play
  • Style
  • Rocks

• Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

  

  David Pajo
  • Punk
  • Grunge
  • Along