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"As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences."
"I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time."
"We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other."
"I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel."
"I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard."
"Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves."
"Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd"
"So it [3D] is something I'm still learning, it's fresh, so if the budget allows I'll do it again and just see how far it goes because it's the frontier, it's more interesting. It's still expensive, the projection system can be annoying sometimes, it's not really regulated or perfected yet, so it's still expensive. If I do a lower budget I'll just do 2D, but if the budget allows I think I'll try 3D."
"I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have."
"I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty."
"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."
"You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side."
"Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong."
"They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying"
"You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock."
"It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords"
"I try to be the best I can be at what I can do, and that’s playing hard & rebounding."
"I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did."
"Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God."
"I've done an awful lot of trying to make everybody else okay and happy. I have learned, now it would really be ok to wait for someone who wants to be there for me and partner with me and I'm really looking forward to it."
