Roger Glover Quotes
I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
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When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.
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'There,' Joseph said. 'There’s your answer.''It’s not an answer, little man. It’s many, many more questions.'
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I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.
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I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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I'm a hard-luck kind of guy. Usually, things that I hope for don't go my way, so I'm very used to that. In fact, I expect it.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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The Nature of the Beast. I have always been curious about other human species...
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I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.
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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
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Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.
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I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.
