West Coast Quotes - Page 2

• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Hip Hop, Trying, West

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• The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

  Walter Isaacson

  Hippie, Thinking, Japan

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken.

  Dan Mathews

  Stars, Animal, Play

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• When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Octopus, Lobster, Youth

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• I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

  Molly Ringwald

  Father, Years, Trying

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

  Luke Donald

  Success, Past, Thinking

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• Americans are desperately, here on the West Coast, buying up and hoarding iodine pills... Isn't it great that in a land that is divided between conservative morons and liberal pussies, somehow we have managed to find a way to pull together and behave like moronic pussies?

  Bill Maher

  Iodine, Land, Pussy

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• Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

  Phillip Noyce

  Black And White, Years, Cities

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• We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.

  Robin Williams

  Boys, College, Opposites

  Source: www.rd.com

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• We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Differences, Mirrors

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• I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.

  Mike Royer

  Friday, Art, Monday

  "HomeInterviews Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

  David Swanson

  California, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Play, Rocks, Important

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I, like anybody whoever met Eric Wright, was mesmerized & inspired. Eric was more like a big brother to me, to all of us. I always think to myself, if there was no Ruthless, West Coast hip hop would not have been as big.

  Kokane

  Brother, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Eazy-E x Kokane: A Day In The Life (DubCNN Exclusive Interview)". Interview with West Haven Blast, www.dubcnn.com. February 20, 2017.

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• We had Bob's [Gordon] records, and he's on Clifford Brown's first record as a leader. I believe it was Clifford Brown's first record as a leader and had the original versions of Daahoud and Joy Spring that were arranged by Bob's best friend, the West Coast tenor player named Jack Montrose, who I later met.

  Jon Gordon

  Spring, Believe, Player

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• The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by the prevailing winds to escape the effects of acid rain and other problems. We were also lucky not to have had the same kind of industrial revolution and industry as some other countries. Our problem now is to create employment, but to do it in ways that value our environment.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Rain, Islands

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.

  Paul Ryan

  Crush, Jobs, Coal Miners

  "Big Ag Just Got A Big, Wet Kiss From Paul Ryan" by Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• I like a lot of west coast stuff like Aerial Pink.

  Mac DeMarco

  Stuff, West, Coast

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• It's a long time coming as far as the work that I put in. Now I know that I got the stamp but what counts is what comes behind. That's what's really important. Upholding that stamp and not only keeping the energy my way but also spreading that energy out to other artists that are coming up on the West Coast.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Long, Important

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Just take the lack of presence of F1 in the United States. In theory - and logically - you would have an East Coast Grand Prix, a West Coast Grand Prix, and I think you should have a street race in Detroit - it is still the motor capital of the US. You stay in the US for four weeks and could have two to three races, certainly two.

  Martin Sorrell

  Thinking, Race, Should Have

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg, and I would always feel like 'Omg I shouldn't be listening to this,' and my other cousin was the first to introduce me to Aaliyah, so every time I'd go to the West Coast, I'd get those West Coast vibes.

  Jillian Hervey

  Cousin, Play, Listening

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching his interviews.

  Tyga

  Rap, Games, Interviews

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

  Tyga

  Rap, Albums, Slim

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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