Robert James Ritchi (Kid Rock) Quotes
I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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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 know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.
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There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.
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I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
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I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.
