Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
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We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.
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I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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I definitely didn't imagine playing there in another uniform, but things happen for a reason and we're going there tomorrow and try to get a win. I'm starting to get a little nervous as we come closer to tomorrow's game, but I'll be OK.
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I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
