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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I was perfectly happy about being in a pop group. Roxy Music was the perfect vehicle, and enabled me to continue with this parallel musical career, which had nothing to do with what the group were doing. It was more to do with the extension of British psychedelia.
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A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.
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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.
