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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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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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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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
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I want to love life.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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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.
