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've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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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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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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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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Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.
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I can't go to war with paparazzi.
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What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
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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.
