"It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting."

-- Matthew Sweet

#Mind Your Own Business Quotes #Curious Quotes #Songwriting Quotes

“I am a hard house freak and I don't care who knows.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.”
“Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.”
“When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.”
“What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.”
“What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.”
“You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2010.

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