Brandon Boyd Quotes
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.
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Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.
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You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.
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The town hall has the spirit of representative democracy, the rally of autocracy.
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I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
