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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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.
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I've always had a love of country music.
