Walter Becker Quotes
I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.
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I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
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I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
