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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
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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.
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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.
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Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.
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That’s a whole new type of stupid.
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For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
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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.
