Les Baxter Quotes
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.
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'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
