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 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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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
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American failures in Vietnam and Iraq suggest that it's not really possible to create and sustain a proxy government in a country far from our own borders.
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On Global Warming, in response to Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General James Milkey's correction of Scalia's reference to the stratosphere: Troposphere, whatever. I told you before I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
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A structured design approach can heighten the hit rate in the fuzzy front end of innovation processes in public and private sectors.
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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.
