Rick Nielsen Quotes

I started out as a drummer, and when I was 9, my drum teacher had an album out. He was the rudiment king! He signed it for me, 'Rudimentally yours, Frank Arsenault.' How cool is that?

Rick Nielsen

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TeacherKingMeCoolDrummerOut

What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told.

Jim Harrison

StyleQualityMeWritingStoryMost

Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.

Joe Rogan

OpportunityFunPeopleMeBelieve

My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator.

Andrew Zimmern

TravelPhoneBecauseFavoriteGadget

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular.

Andrew Breitbart

AmericaMediaRaceUpBringMuch

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

Andrew Lincoln

PretendGoingBecauseSaintSome

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Robert Scoble

WorkFamilyHappyWeekYouNice

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

Stephen Hopkins

ThinkingThoughtNowPlayingWould

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Stephen Schwartz

StoryEnjoyYouProjectTellWriter

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

Roberto Benigni

BeautifulBestWordsGivingDoing

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Russell Smith

MusicPoetrySongVoiceShortLong

Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview that girl a lot - but sometimes, every once in a while, you get to interview a legend. I have interviewed some amazingly iconic people, including Michelle Obama, Oprah, Sidney Poitier and Judy Dench. These people are legit icons.

Ross Mathews

GirlPeopleSisterLegendYouGet

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

LoveYourselfHumanityYouSayWell

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