Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
D. H. Lawrence -
I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
Ozzie Smith -
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
Young Jeezy -
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
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.
Usher -
For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
Taylor Swift
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Damien Rice -
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Wayne Coyne -
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
Barry McGuire -
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
Wayne Knight -
Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
Larry Speakes
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
Daniel Barenboim -
Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
Victoria Aveyard -
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.
Questlove -
As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
Narada Michael Walden
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I'm made to ride a bike, not do washing.
Caroline Buchanan -
We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
Andy Rooney -
I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Orlando Bloom -
My first job has been to do the best thing for the Bosnian people. Not for the Serbs, the Bosniaks or Croats, but the people as a whole.
Paddy Ashdown -
The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation, and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation, even though I'm not the starter. I've got a chance to get back with some familiar faces, back at a place I'm familiar with.
Tarvaris Jackson -
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon