Eric Avery famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.
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That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.
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Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.
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I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
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But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
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I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.
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I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.
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I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.
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I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.
-- Eric Avery
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Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
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(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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