Nicholas Payton Quotes

Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.

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• I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Roles

• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Try

• I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Think
  • Care

• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• Did you really think I would sell you out?

  

  Karl Malone
  • Think
  • You
  • Sell

• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Thankful

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Know
  • Distance
  • Loyal

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Age
  • Strength
  • Old Age

• The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song

• I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Someone
  • Friendly
  • Flirting

• Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

  

  Heinz Guderian
  • Action
  • Speak
  • Prepared

• To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fire

• My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.

  

  Andre-Marie Ampere
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Listen

• Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ass and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.

  

  Nicholas Payton
  • Sound
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  • Real Music