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 understand why people do reality TV talent shows, I just don't think it's good for music. It's karaoke. What three people on a panel perceive as being great vocally, I think, isn't necessarily right.
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At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.
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I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
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I always think of moments of love with someone I love.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.
