Pat Metheny Quotes

I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

Pat Metheny

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MusicDoingWayThingsExciting

Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.

Jennifer McMahon

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I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

John Gallagher, Jr.

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An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

Jeff Tweedy

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Sitting down with the insightful Gabourey Sidibe was a wonderful experience.

Amanda de Cadenet

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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

Stephen Graham Jones

ChangeEndingStartingIndustryToo

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Stanley Crouch

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If youth knew; if age could.

Sigmund Freud

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It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

Tracey Ullman

MeSadnessThingsGetsPoignancy

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just so many boundaries.

Rupi Kaur

CultureSacrificeParentsSurvive

I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as therapy as I was doing my Ph.D. in device physics.

Mary Lou Jepsen

MoonDoingHumanityPhysicsTherapy

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

Demetri Martin

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