Sam Smith Quotes
If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
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No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
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I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.
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For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.
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With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.
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I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.
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Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
