Tim McIlrath Quotes

And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

Tim McIlrath Rise Against

• Bands
• Hurricane
• Testosterone
• Male-dominated

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• I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Politics
  • Idea

• I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Political
  • Veteran

• The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Water

• I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.

  

  Janet Reno
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

  

  Kelly Jones

• When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

  

  Donald Hall
  • People
  • Model

• It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Long
  • Done
  • Road

• I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Movie
  • Order

• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Place
  • Easy

• You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."

  

  Viola Davis
  • Character
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

  

  William Stafford
  • Memories
  • Minutes
  • Plans

• This is the age of oddities let loose.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Loose

• Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Ball
  • Good Time
  • Don't Stop

• We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Detroit
  • Went
  • Radio Station

• Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Poet
  • Foremost
  • Jim

• I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Optimistic
  • Frustrated
  • Disillusioned

• The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Next
  • Wants
  • Bands

• The Sex Pistols came through Atlanta, and I got to go see them. That was historic. It blew me away; it was so much fun. I bought 45s of bands you don't hear about anymore.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Bands
  • Historic
  • Atlanta

• Bitcoin is a technological tour de force...

  

  Bill Gates
  • Bitcoin
  • Tour de force

• And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Bands
  • Hurricane
  • Testosterone