Omar Credle Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
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The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality
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One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
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No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.
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I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the foresight to look for a number of projects that would keep us away from the streets.
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We used to go to Palm Springs, ditch school when I was in eleventh grade, and go hang out poolside with our ghetto blaster and listen to Pat Metheny 'Offramp' and kind of trip out on a lot of his music.
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Everything has a price...
