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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
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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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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
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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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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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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
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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.
