Jon Batiste Quotes
Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!
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Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.
