Jon Oringer Quotes
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
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When I first joined 'Dancing with the Stars,' I did not want to do it. It's not what I like, it's not what I believe in... the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake... there is not a lot of reality.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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I believe you've got to do your due diligence.
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I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.
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There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.
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