Top 18 Oliver Quotes
#1. I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.
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#2. There's always tomorrow, until there's not.
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#3. I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.
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#4. I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interaction, rather than huge injustices.
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#5. Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there's another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.
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#6. I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.
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#7. I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to become too conscious of it.
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#8. If there is one sin - or rather one waste - it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.
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#9. I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.
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#10. I try to make the music give people a chance to become engrossed with what they hear enough to possibly experience things they've probably experienced on their own but don't normally let themselves go so as to feel them fully.
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#11. A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.
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#12. I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.
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#13. If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.
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#14. Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.
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#15. My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?
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#16. When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.
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#17. If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives.
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#18. If you're not pissing someone off, you probably aren't doing anything important.
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