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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What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
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'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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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.
