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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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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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
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I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
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The purpose of the whole the Comedy and of this portion the Paradiso is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.
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I felt the exact same way.But if it helps,you look much cuter freaking out than I ever did." I peeked out through my hands."But what if I don't get in?" He wrapped his arms around me. "No more worrying about it.You'll get in." "Good.Someone needs to keep an eye on you and that dirty little dyrad of a lab assistant." He laughed,squeezing me until I couldn't breathe. "Why would I ever want a lusty tree nymph when I could have a hyperventilating Evie?
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Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.
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We're beginning to see some increase in incomes, and we certainly have had a long string of increasing jobs. We've got to do more to get the whole economy moving, and that's what I believe I will be able to do.
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Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.
