Victor Wooten Quotes
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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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.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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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.
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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.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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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.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
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The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.
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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
