Cassandra Wilson Quotes
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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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 believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
