Sam Smith Quotes
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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I've stayed away from the actual L.A. scene for most of my life.
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Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
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For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.
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We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
