Jon Batiste Quotes
Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it around me. Not because they're around me; they're saying it because it articulated a state of mind. Lil Wayne's rapped about it.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
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When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
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She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
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Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
