"Don't Believe Everything You Think"

 

"The truth just sounds different"

-Penny Lane

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"There's nothing to hold onto when gravity betrays you" - Graham Parker

 

"I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if I play too long

This brother is free, I'll be what I want to be.... "

- Donald Fagen

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"I Don't Know"

- Very few people...

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Live life like you're gonna die, because you're gonna...

-William Shatner

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It’s not what you don’t know that can hurt you, it’s the stuff you know that isn’t so.

-unknown

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"Never let a good groove trick you into thinking you have a good song"

- Robbie Neville

 

"Music is the best"

-Frank Zappa

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The best way to succeed in life 

is to act on the advise 

you give to others

-my last fortune cookie

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Life's Too Short To Suck

-Fletcher

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The richest person in the world can't buy a single minute

-Unknown

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Good is the enemy of great

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"I know it's today, so I guess you can say, one recovers..."

-Jon Brion

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I Yam What I Yam

- Popeye

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Change your heart, look around you.

Change your heart, it will astound you

And everybody's gotta learn sometime.

-James Warren

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I Begin Where My Bullshit Ends

-mk

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Six Million Nickelback fans CAN be wrong.....- Rolling Stone Magazine

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"Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken" - Oscar Wilde

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It's easier to be done, than to be done right

-unknown

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"Imagination is more important than intelligence"

-Albert Einstien

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One persons ceiling is another persons floor

-unknown

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

- unknown

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The Second Mouse Gets the Cheese

-unknown

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Life doesn't give you what you want. It gives you what you'll accept

-unknown

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"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances in your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level

-Eckart Toll

 

The cool thing about creating something, is that good or bad, it's the only one like it in the whole world

-Unknown (maybe Willie Wonka)

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"The Enemy Isn't Liberalism or Conservatism, 

The Enemy Is Bullshit"

-Lars-Erik Nelson

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“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants"

-Isaac Newton

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I always pronounced it "Star Track"

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We're only stupid, fat, successful, smart, rich, poor, good looking, crazy, important or talented when we compare ourselves to other people. When you don't compare yourself to anyone or care what other people do...... then you're just..... YOU

-mk

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When you open it..... it's over.

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To thine own self be true

- Shakespeare

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Kisses are meant to be stolen 

- unknown

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"Talk is the disease. Action is the cure"

-Henry Rollins

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Love is reckless, not reason

Reason seeks a profit.

Loves comes on strong

Consuming herslf , unabashed.

- Rumi

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Our certainty creates our reality

-mk

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Something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day

-Joni Mitchell

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"Shut up, he explained"

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When you fight fire with fire, sometimes you just make a bigger fire

-mk

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Rationalizations are just tools for postponing the truth. Because we know once we are confronted with the truth, we can’t ignore it while still considering ourselves good, honest, or real people. So rationalizations are our inner-self’s defense mechanism that kicks in when we’re not ready to stop doing and thinking what we know we shouldn’t be doing and thinking. Everyone knows that.

- Kieth Ablow

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To me, overproduction means throwing away everything that feels right in a herculean effort to achieve nothing wrong. 

-Bob Olhsson

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Anyone can blow something up. Creating something takes skill.

-unknown

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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

-Richard Dawkins

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Honesty is such a lonely word, everyone is so untrue... - Billy Joel

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Sex with a condom is like driving 100 miles to eat at an Olive Garden

-mk

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Everything in moderation - especially moderation - unknown

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Depending on whichever book you read

Sometime it takes a lifetime to get what you need...

-Aimee Mann

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"I generally find it easier to just roll over and let them have their way with me"

-My buddy Scott 

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If You Beat It - It's Yours

-mk

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Only the mediocre are always at their best - unknown

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Don't take on a project that is going to make you look bad. It may prevent
you from getting the next gig.
-Roger Nichols

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
-Truman Capote

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Tiny rules for tiny lives 

-Henry Rollins

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Flavor isn't a good enough reason to kill animals. ........... And there it is.

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- There's nothing like being turned onto great music. Where would I be if not for all the cool people in my life who said, "You should check this out!...." So, here's a few you may not have heard:

Jellifish - "Bellybutton" and "Spilt Milk" - Two perfect albums. Engineered by one of my favorites, Jack Joseph Puig.

 

Kevin Gilbert - "Thud" and "Shaming of the True" - "The Shaming of the True" changed my life. It's a wonderfully written, beautifully recorded, rock opera about an idealistic musician who, at first, sells out to false gods like fame and beauty, but then remembers who he is. (calling Dr. Freud!)

 

Jon Brion-"Meaningless" - Also check out his production skills on Fiona Apple's "When the Pawn" and Beck's version of the beautiful James Warren song "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" - He's so good it's scary.

 

David Baerwald - "Triage" and "NFU" - Am I alone in this?!?

 

 

Alice Cooper - "Goes To Hell" and "From The Inside" - Not what you may think. Great songwriting, Bob Ezrin, David Foster, Tony Levin....

 

 

Queens of the Stoneage - "R" , "Songs For The Deaf", "Lullabies" - Who's cooler?

 

 

Fiona Apple - "When The Pawn..."- One of my favorite albums of the 90's. Matt Chamberlain is the coolest drummer on the planet. Jon Brion produced, Rich Costey engineered. Don't care for her other records though.

 

 

Fountains of Wayne - "Traffic and Weather" and "Welcome Interstate Managers" Wow.... I think these guys are the best pop/rock songwriters out right now. Amazingly self produced as well. 

 

 

 

Deerhoof - "Milk Man" & "Friend Opportunity"

Very Very original band 

 

 

 

 

Mute Math - You won't find a bad song on all three of their records! Genious.

 

 

 

 

More to come....