Nomi Ruiz Quotes
People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.
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I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.
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I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do.
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When you've been part of a show that has made so many people happy and continues to do so to this day, it's hard to resent it, ... Besides that, I'm also known as Maynard, which means I say 'WORK?!?!' for fans almost as much as I say, 'Skipper!'
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I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
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There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
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People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'
