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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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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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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Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
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I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.
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Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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.
