Erik Rutan quotes

“For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.”
-- Erik Rutan

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“Everything has it's own vibe. Every song has a different place, I guess, of where and when and what was going on and things of that nature.”
-- Erik Rutan

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“I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.”
-- Erik Rutan

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“I've always used Old English in certain songs.”
-- Erik Rutan

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“I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.”
-- Erik Rutan

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“I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.”
-- Erik Rutan

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“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”

“One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”

“Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.”

“There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.”

“Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.”

“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.”

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“For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.”

“King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.”