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Mike Lowry
American
Politician
About the author
We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Songs
What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Needs
#Government
#Wrong
We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Songs
#Work
We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#People
#Sense
#Cities
We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Wealth
We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
We became good friends with Galactic as well.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Friends
Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Pretty
#Experience
#Soul
Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Listening
You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Songs
#Play
I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Songs
#Time
Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#State
#Washington
#Development
#Unemployment
I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Time
#World
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Work
#World
I was way into Primus in high school so hanging out with him was a thrill.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#School
If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#People
#Coffee
#Understanding
It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Songs
The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#End
#Law
#Change
#Talking
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Society
#Project
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Saying
#Democracy
A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Trees
Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Public
#Information
#Opportunity
#Project
It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Play
#Influence
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
Mike Lowry,
American
Politician
#Want
#People
#Limits