Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

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• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  

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• Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  

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• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

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• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  

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• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

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• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

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• I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

  

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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

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• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  

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• In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

  

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• I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

  

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• I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

  

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• Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

  

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• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

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• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

  

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• I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.

  

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• I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

  

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• We all fancied Germany today, we didn't think it was going to be this easy.

  

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• People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

  

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• I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

  

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• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  

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• If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.

  

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• I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Kind
  • Listening
  • Parent