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I've never been on a water slide in my life.
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As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
Ric Ocasek The Cars
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
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People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.
David Robinson The Cars -
I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.
Benjamin Orzechowski The Cars
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I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.
David Robinson The Cars -
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
David Robinson The Cars -
There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
Ric Ocasek The Cars
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When I produce other people, that's the thing I can do well because I've been in a band, and I can play the political game and make everybody feel happy, and I can check their performances, and I can work on the sound while they're being a band.
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Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him.
David Robinson The Cars -
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.
David Robinson The Cars
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Marc Gasol, he's more of a true center. There are guys who play that traditional center role, but the game is also played differently now.
David Robinson The Cars -
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
David Robinson The Cars -
I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.
David Robinson The Cars