Victor Wooten Quotes

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Well who's black and what is a black person?

  

  Pam Grier
  • Black
  • Person
  • Well

• I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Go

• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Difficult

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Positive

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painting

• There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Best
  • Baby

• Social Security is fundamentally strong.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Strong
  • Security
  • Social

• Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Great
  • America
  • Destruction

• The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Idea

• Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Real
  • House

• Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.

  

  Om Malik
  • Different
  • Long
  • Rock

• I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

  

  Charles Dance

• I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.

  

  Betty Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

  

  Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Music
  • Word
  • Understood