Rickey Medlocke Quotes
There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I don't believe in regret.
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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I was once sitting on a tube, and someone was playing my song so loudly through their ear phones next to me. I just stayed silent and chuckled to myself.
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Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
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Something that I think extends to a lot of African cultures is that the line between performer and audience is blurry. My mom would lead the wedding song regularly, and she isn't a professional singer. Even as an audience member, you're expected to clap and sing the response to the lead.
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The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.
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Yoga has taught me that a fundamental principle of life is that energy follows intention. When we create a strong intention and really believe in it, the world magically seeks to support us.
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I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.
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The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
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There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
