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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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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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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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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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
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I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
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I thought work and family complete life. Aarti's enthusiasm and energy levels made me realise that life can be even more wholesome and fuller.
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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.
