Mahalia Jackson Quotes
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.
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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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The clubs are good fun-having a laugh, really having a good time.
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
