Quotes About Control

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work.

Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

There is a common misconception that when you're a singer working for a recording company you get to pick everything you're doing. Very few people have been accorded such a luxury.

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it.

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.