Earle Brown Quotes
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'
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Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
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People turn off the news, stop reading in-depth magazine articles - especially young people. Look at the increasing reluctance of young people to vote. I think a lot of that is directly - you can lay it at the feet of these negative campaigns and relentless attack ads.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
