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I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#always #anything #certainly #door #guitar

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#lot #music #often #out #people

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#affected #any #applause #beautiful #beautiful person

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #endears #especially #films #get-go

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#experiencing #feel #going #i #i feel

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#children #just #parents #raising #searching

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#happens #multiple #myself #now #other

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#logic #mathematics #nothing #specialised #structures

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#exciting #make #out #press #rarely

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right? ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#does #every #everybody #i #i think