Benmont Tench Quotes
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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Bless our Mountain Greenery home!In a mountain greeneryWhere God paints the sceneryJust two crazy people together
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.
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It got to the point where I was afraid that I would have to wake up the following morning and think about what I was going to do next. To suddenly realize that everything was disappearing was incredibly frightening. We all loved the music we were making so much, but when you're dealing with things that were really personal to all of us, when you immerse yourself in the emotions we were writing about, it can't help but bring up bad things.
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The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
