Esther Renay Dean (Ester Dean) Quotes
I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
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We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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I'm better than probably 90 percent of the people out there. Doesn't mean I'm smart; probably means I'm lucky.
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I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
