Robert James Ritchi (Kid Rock) Quotes
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
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The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.
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I've always had a love of country music.
