Aluna Francis Quotes
It’s really great for the whole band to learn how to be at that professional level. Even just things like timing are so crucial – you can’t over-run as the support act.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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If you want to earn more, learn more.
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
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The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.
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Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.
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Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice cream shop, you can't really learn much about a person based on what kind of music they happen to like. As a personality test, it doesn't work even half the time. However, there is at least one thing you can learn: The most wretched people in the word are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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How many people have you made homesick for God?
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It’s really great for the whole band to learn how to be at that professional level. Even just things like timing are so crucial – you can’t over-run as the support act.
