George Duke Quotes
The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.
Quotes to Explore
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
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The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.
