D'Angelo (Michael Eugene Archer) Quotes
I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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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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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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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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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
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I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
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Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy.
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A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
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I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
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I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.
