I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”
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I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
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I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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