Isaac Hayes Quotes
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.
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Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
