David Sanborn Quotes
I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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My first-ever role was the king in 'The Princess and the Pea.'
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I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.
