David Sanborn Quotes
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.
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Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.
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All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life.
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'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.
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I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.
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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
