Roy Wood Quotes
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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My music is jazz.
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We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
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I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'
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My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
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You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
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John Lewis said that if he didn't reach a critical mass in recruiting technicians, he would fold his tent and go away. I'm waiting for that to happen.
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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
