Cassandra Wilson Quotes

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

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• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

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• I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

  

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• If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

  

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• I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

  

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• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

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• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

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• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

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• I am a Bolshevik.

  

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• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  

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• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

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• I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

  

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• I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

  

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• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

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• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

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• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

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• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  

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• In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

  

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• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

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  • Music
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• I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

  

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• Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Doing
  • Forms
  • African