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I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.
“I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.”
— Ry Cooder · Controlling
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“I keep my mind on track, and I don't get mad, and I don't get frustrated. Well, I do... but creative work, it's a way of controlling all that.”
“The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.”
“I didn't want tunes that preach heaven: you know, life on Earth is bad and heaven is the only hope we have. I don't quite care for that. I mean, when people sing that stuff, it's good when they do it, but I didn't want to do it.”
“I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.”
“I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.”
“People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.”
“I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.”
“I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.”
“I was a guy that had a lot of tools and could do a lot of other things, but my main thing was controlling the defensive end of the court.”
“I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.”
“I try and not be the controlling woman I can probably be.”
“Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.”