Zack de la Rocha Quotes
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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I love dancing.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
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What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.
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History is the best guide to the future.
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Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.
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Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
