Charlie Trotter Quotes
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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My mom and I are very close.
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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - period.
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It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.
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I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
