Rick Nielsen Quotes

I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

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• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Play
  • Old

• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Look
  • Figures

• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
  • People
  • Know
  • Play

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Sitting

• I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Why
  • Play
  • Losing

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Ideas
  • Working
  • Dead

• It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Make A Difference

• Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Great
  • Think
  • Player

• Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
  • Art
  • Ideas

• After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Single
  • Band

• When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Ideas
  • Management

• I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

  

  Leo Kottke

• The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Real
  • Actors
  • Persons

• I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Simple

• There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Emotional

• I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

  

  Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
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