- Mud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
- Focal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'
- Strings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
- Nov 07, 2020
Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020