Eddie Floyd Quotes
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
Quotes to Explore
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
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Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.
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Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
