- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
- Comic Strip
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020