Nathaniel Rateliff Quotes

#1. Bennett: When it comes to you, Avery, it will never be nothing. It
will always be something. BIG somethings that I'll always want to
know about.

Christina Lee

#2. The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Schweitzer

#3. I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

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#4. My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

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#5. Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Thomas Middleton

#7. Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

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#8. There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.

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#9. I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

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#10. Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.

Thomas Watson

#11. There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

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#12. I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

Samantha Bee

#13. ...there were eighty or so people gathered to listen to this utter shit as though it were their daily language passing through the crucible of the human sprint and emerging purified, redeemed.

Ben Lerner

#14. You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

Kenny Wormald

#15. Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

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#16. When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.

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#17. Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

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#18. Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

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#19. The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

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#20. They did not speak. Once, she said suddenly, "Mr. Galt." "Yes?" "No. Nothing. I just wanted to know whether you were still there." "I will always be there.

Ayn Rand

#21. There can never be intimacy if [someone] is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy.

Francis Chan

#22. One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

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#23. My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.

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#24. I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

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#25. I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

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#26. Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.

Liza Palmer

#27. It's not ... not as easy to break away from home as I thought it'd be.

Marilyn Brant

#28. I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

Sheryl Crow

#29. It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.

Raul Ruiz

#30. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

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#31. I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

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