Paul Kantner Quotes
The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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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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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
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When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!
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There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
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The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
