Alex Ebert Quotes
I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
Alex Ebert
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
Patrick Dempsey
When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.
Babatunde Adebimpe
When I was signed to Aftermath, the label was giving me the most difficulty with clearing songs for video games because they didn’t understand the importance of video games.
Philip Martin
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
James Meredith
I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.
Lee Ryan
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I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
Alex Ebert