Dave Matthews Quotes
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
Hal Sparks
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
Irvine Welsh
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria de los Angeles
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
Ian McShane
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
Laura Linney
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.
Vanity
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
Zhang Zhidong
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
Fat Joe
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
Pardis Sabeti
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
Natasha Trethewey
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How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.
Katharine Hepburn
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Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads,
I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt.
LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt?
I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain,
Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name.
I was to blame, my life never been the same.
A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me.
My classmate died, my other friend named Cory
Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window,
Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.
Peter Maurer
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I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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People don't generally listen to scientists much.
Martin Chalfie
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I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews Band
