Matthew Vasquez (Matthew Logan Vasquez) Quotes
My songwriting is the sum of my life experience so, yes, it’s had an impact for sure.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.
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Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of opened up my horizons for what songwriting was and what singers I could listen to.
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Action and adaptability create opportunity.
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I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
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My songwriting is the sum of my life experience so, yes, it’s had an impact for sure.
