Bela Fleck Quotes
When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Quotes to Explore
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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Europe can be saved.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.
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As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.
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When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
