Aaron Neville Quotes
A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
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The information age has off-loaded a great deal of work previously done by people we could call information specialists onto all of the rest of us.
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When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
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Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
