Back In The Day Quotes - Page 2

• If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.

  Will Sheff

  Song, Guitar, Acoustics

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.

  Scott Haze

  Crazy, Guy, Hollywood

  "The IW Springboard: For ‘Child of God’ Star Scott Haze, Acting Is Like a Sport" by Eric Kohn and Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 1, 2014.

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• What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke up. That's an interesting phenomenon. It was even interesting back in the day. I mean, [we were] this glorified garage band. It was a great band, but it was not the kind of band you expected to become what it has.

  Slash

  Mean, Gun, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've know Jeezy before he was Jeezy. I've been down with Cash Money from back in the day. So these are real relationships. I'm there for them and they're there for me. And they know if I'm going to make a record with somebody, I'm gonna hit a home run.

  DJ Khaled

  Running, Real, Home

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• Nowadays, when you make movies, you don’t need any lights at all. You have to remember, back in the day, the film stocks that they had were very, very insensitive and they would have these humongous lights and lighting was everything, so everyone looked good. Nowadays with digital film where you don’t need any light at all, you could shoot in the [bleep] dark. It makes people not look so good and it makes aging on film much, much harder.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Dark, Light, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.

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• Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

  Geoff Downes

  Play, Track, Tools

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• "Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Snow, Three

  Source: wwd.com

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• Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

  Kim Dickens

  Three, Pilots, Lasts

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Heart, Technology, Singing

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• I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.

  Max Schneider

  Guitar, Ukulele, Play

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• There's always gonna be people saying they were so much better back in the day.

  Justin Broadrick

  People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.

  Brandon T. Jackson

  Dad, Thinking, Age

  "Brandon T. Jackson Interview BIG MOMMA'S: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON". Interview, collider.com. February 17, 2011.

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• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  Ice Cube

  Xbox, Games, Skills

  "Interview: Ice Cube and Kevin Hart talk gaming, Cube's next album, "Ride Along," and "Friday"". Interview with Michael Rougeau, www.complex.com. January 7, 2014.

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• As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.

  Rajon Rondo

  Growing Up, Cutting, Nba

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like... "This is the world? This is reality?"

  Ellen Wong

  Real, Teenager, World

  Source: collider.com

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• It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends. If you're metal and you don't sound like Slayer would sound now, then you're not metal. If you're punk rock and you don't sound like and preach about what The Sex Pistols would have preached about back in the day, then you're not really punk rock.

  Cristian Machado

  Sex, Rocks, Trying

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Nothing is going to stay the same; nothing's gonna sound like in 1952. There's some stuff that has some elements of back in the day, like back in the 90's, back in the 80's or whatever. Some elements, but it's not going to be the same, exactly, sounding. And I love it, I've seen the music change. I've seen the flow and the energy go from turned up to turned down to back to turned up. I like to try different stuff. I don't like to do the same old thing over and over again. I don't like to be repetitive, that gets on my nerves.

  Juicy J

  Old Things, Trying, Energy

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

  Mr. T

  Gold, Four, Pounds

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• Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

  Daron Malakian

  Kings, War, Wages

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• Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've just broadened the meaning of that.

  David First

  Song, Animal, Expression

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

  Mike Shannon

  Curveballs, Pitcher, Fastballs

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• I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Thinking, Past

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

  Kim Basinger

  Dad, Crazy, War

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• Back in the day, it would be more competitive and hide. You do your thing. I'll do mine. It's not like that at all. Everyone is there to help everyone, and that gives you a great sense of not only just support, but respect and everything else that goes with it.

  Klay Hall

  Giving, Support, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Kids, White, People

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

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