Ed Kowalczyk Quotes
We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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I won't necessarily make new music because when you make a record there are these great expectations on the side of the record company who are going to produce your record, promoters that are going to do your shows. They want you to do interviews, they want you to play shows. I mean, they want it to be a campaign.
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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
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The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
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I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.
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I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."
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We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence.
