Alan McGee Quotes
We were all so young, and I just think I only got there because I was hyper enthusiastic, I would work all the time because music was and still is my dream, ultimately.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
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It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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Music will save the world.
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If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
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There has to be an interaction of musicians on stage. Otherwise I feel too alone up there. When performing is really good, when it really works, maybe once every 15 shows, it's very special, and you realize that's why you do it.
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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.
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I'm tired of seeing people dying every day; I'm tired of seeing people go to jail for nothing.
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I was doing 'Homeland' and read the first two episodes, and all I wanted was episode three to know what would happen next.
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The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.
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We were all so young, and I just think I only got there because I was hyper enthusiastic, I would work all the time because music was and still is my dream, ultimately.
