Zac Brown Band Quotes
All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.
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After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
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All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.
