Trey Anastasio Quotes

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

Trey Anastasio

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What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

Jim Brown

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Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.

Jenna Wortham

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My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.

Andrew Sean Greer

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People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.

Max Richter

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I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.

Amy Adams

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I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this terrible crime.

Steven Hatfill

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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Sidney Altman

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I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.

Rupert Sheldrake

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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important.

Min Jin Lee

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In '82 and '83, that was the rise of the VCR. Every Friday, my brother and I would go to Crazy Eddie's - which was a video store in Manhattan - and rent five horror movies. And that's basically what we did, basically, for three years. Becoming social misfits.

Colson Whitehead

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The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

Conor Oberst

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