D'Angelo (Michael Eugene Archer) Quotes
The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
