Cassandra Wilson Quotes
I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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You never know how much time you got.
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The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.
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I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
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So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
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Services remains a really significant part of our growth strategy.
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I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
