Elvin Jones Quotes
You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
Elvin Jones
Quotes to Explore
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
W. E. B. Du Bois
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
Paloma Faith
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
Patricia Reilly Giff
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Karen Maitland
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
Aaron Paul
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
Laini Taylor
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
Rachel Zoe
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
Sam Brownback
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
Langston Hughes
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You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'
Ted Danson
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Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.
Donatella Versace
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I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
Phillip Phillips
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I write music every day.
Lady Gaga
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I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'
Bill Medley
The Righteous Brothers
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We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
Debbie Harry
Blondie
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You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
Elvin Jones
