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7898 Musician Quotes

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Prone Error Humans Upgrade
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Work Seriously Just Myself
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

After Join Band Flag
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

August Messanger Actor Misery
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

Europe Performing Have Festival
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Change is hard, but change is good.

Change Good Hard Is
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

Realization Capable Good Exactly
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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

Matter Wrap Premiere Movie
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Enough Oxygen Stuck Walking
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Looking Work Vacations Longer
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Storyteller Love Being Telling
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I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do.

Young Travel Countries Often
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There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

Each Looking Right Activism
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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Was Repressed Person School
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To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

Every Number Clippers Apply
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

Summer's Ghost Warm September
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Some music really does suck!

Music Suck Some Really
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Classmates Flinch Gesture Afraid
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I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist.

Hungry Cultures Exist Suffer
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Make that call. Send that text. Forgive that person. Tell them you miss them. Let go of that Grudge. Show more kindness . Don't take it for granted because tomorrow isn't promised

Forgive Person Call Send
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
Love Hearing My Audience
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I've never been more normal than I am now.

Normal Never More Been
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I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
Black Like Johnny Cash
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Looking Nice But Comfort
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Music Eyes Ears Make
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Quite Loud Bolshie Big
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I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Longer Buy Papers Tabloids
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

Body Rhythm Know Quite
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Just Want Music People
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

Adopting Ethiopian Child True
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

People Confusing That About
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Sports Illustrated Body Wear
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Never Wanted Like Models
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Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Achievement Possible Good Look
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Brave Innovative Thinking Out
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

Don't Easy Songs Cuss
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Lives Palestine Iran Interview
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I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

Strength Endure Myself Find
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If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

Revolution Dripping Range Televised
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Tours Anticipations Always Start
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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