Racket Quotes
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When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
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Most of our first gigs were in typical Devon pubs where you just go and sit down with a drink and watch VH-1 on the telly. They really didn't want to see a band. All they wanted was a quiet pint and we were in the corner just making a racket...
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of course, that's what an artist does," but there ain't too many artists around anymore. I see a lot of people who, if they thought they wouldn't profit, would find an easier hustle. It's a racket now, like everything else, but we're in a capitalistic country - everything's a racket. Take what you can. I think the difference between that line of thinking and me is obvious.
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Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
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What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.
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Sometimes you just want to get away and be normal for a few days. It's a treat to travel without your racket bag.
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I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.
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I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
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Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
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Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
