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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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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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Before I was making music, I was homeless. I didn't have all the girls or any friends - and now I have everything that I wanted.
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I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.
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I don't feel that old, but when I talk to these kids, I do feel old. Because I'm talking about taxes and all this other stuff that is very, very boring. And these guys are talking about music, and I'm like, 'Oh, I remember those days.'
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I don't want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.
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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.
