Andy Hurley Quotes
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I believe that music is God's voice.
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
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Never give up your power to another person.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.
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We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.
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Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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Life without music is no life at all.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.
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Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
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Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.
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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
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I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
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Music is the first thing I didn't give up.
