Elvin Jones Quotes
It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
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Liquidity problems can occur in central clearing, even if all counterparties have the financial resources to meet their obligations, if they are unable to convert those resources into cash quickly enough.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.
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The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.
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I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
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What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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'Dirty nigger!' or simply 'Look! A Negro!'
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It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.
