Nicholas Payton Quotes
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I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Now that I'm famous, guys don't hit on me.
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He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
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We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.
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You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.
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Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
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If you do right, everything will come out right.
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I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.
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Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.
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We did the very best we could. Something good has got to come out of it somewhere.
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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.
