Lalah Hathaway Quotes
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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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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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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'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I love to play music.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.
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I love school and science; I also love piano and music.
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Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
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Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.
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It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.
