Charlie Hunter Quotes
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I was pretty sheltered growing up. I just started getting into heavier music with the Tooth & Nail/Solid State era, which really kind of brought this whole thing to life for me, so I am really thankful for that label.
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The world map looks smaller than ever before.
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That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
