Art Alexakis Quotes
I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Time was God's first creation.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.
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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, that seems unnatural. I write the music that somebody with my biography would write, and the thing that's always driven me is an enthusiasm for the material. I sort of follow the notes to where they want to go.
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I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
