Ray Brown Quotes
We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.
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Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
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Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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I used to practice Wicca.
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A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.
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Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.
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Inviting a foreign head of state to address the Congress is a clear breach of protocol and practice, and undermines the U.S. presidency.
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I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.
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I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.
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I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
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By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
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I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.
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I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.
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Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.
