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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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
Karin Slaughter -
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
David Miliband -
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
E. Joseph Cossman -
I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
Sally Hawkins -
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.
Alfred Binet -
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon