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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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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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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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
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I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.
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And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
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I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.
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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.
