Alan Parsons Quotes
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
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Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and this will be pure H-E double L for me. Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
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The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
