The Cars Quotes
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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.
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There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
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Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
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It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.
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This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.
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If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.
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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.
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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.
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
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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.
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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.
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I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.
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I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
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Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
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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.
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I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with 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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Preparation is everything.
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That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
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Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
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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.
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If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
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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.