Creed Bratton Quotes
Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.
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The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?
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Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.
