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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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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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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Ovince Saint Preux needs to know that not only me but every other guy at the American Kickboxing Academy are ready and open to open those doors in trying to help him accomplish his goals.
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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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My philosophy is to treat people how you want to be treated.
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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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One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.
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Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
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My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.
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Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
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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.
