Paul Rodgers Quotes
When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
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Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.
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I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.
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Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.
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When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.
