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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I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
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Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.
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Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.
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On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.
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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.
