R. Price Quotes

To think someone can go out and sell something about you is really disgusting. I'm much more careful now.

I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG.

If there was somebody I wanted to meet, I'd like to be able to get their autograph.

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful.

Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath.

Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

I want to write, act, and direct!

Ive been on one TV series after another. None of the network decisions have ever made sense to me.

Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong.

The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?

Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

Love is where it's at. I'm not speaking of sexual love. I'm talking about where you love each other, want to do the best for each other and just just are happy you found each other.

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.

I love my fans and have devoted my life to reaching out to them.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.

I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

Beat him, eat him and get out.

The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad with a Torah of his own.

I used to play tenor sax in high school, man.

If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday."

Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them.

Good psych should take you to a different place, be a bit disorientating and have the ability to make you wonder and perhaps make you feel the need to sit down.

Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.

I like taking my leads from what I see rather than trying to impose. I like that way of looking at things and seeing what's on screen and seeing how I can draw music out of it almost.

In the mid-2000s, I kind of accidentally became a music editor.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's.

I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

For me, I work very self-contained. It's literally just me sitting in a room doing it until the very end of the process when other musicians come in and instruments are recorded.

I think after everything in the whole process of filmmaking, temp scores are great if you use them for what they're good for, if you use them for that early stage of support for things.

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take.

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.