Hayley Mills Quotes
Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
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No one is born hating others.
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I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.
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I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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Remember what I told you about the blues? If you're not risking nothing, neither would they.
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed...
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Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.
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There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.
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Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
