Phil Everly Quotes
If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.
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Isolationism is over.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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We thought being offered the M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
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I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for success. I'll always follow my heart and make the music I want to make.
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When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
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Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.
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I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.
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If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.
