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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If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
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Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.
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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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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
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I like to connect with the other actors in a fantasy situation.
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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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Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
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Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.
