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"If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength."
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"You can endure every hardship with hope."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
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"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
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"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."
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"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
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"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."
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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"You cannot break me. My spirit is stronger."
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"Every struggle you overcome, will build the strength of your spirit."
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"The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens."
Agreement
"I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college."
Chicago
"The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh."
Dating
"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."
Chicago
"Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road."
Road
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."
Wisdom
"Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food."
Food
"By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum."
Music
"I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else."
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"Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything."
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