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

• Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.

  

  Barry Long
  • Love Is
  • Breath
  • Hurricane

• A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Music
  • Artists
  • Bands

• I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • Water
  • Conventions
  • Hurricane

• 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