Vanessa Morgan Quotes
I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
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Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'
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It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
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It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it
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Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create a connection with an audience, it brings so much of their knowledge of what genre really is to the table. You have a shortcut to connect with them. I really like that.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation.
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I'm a firm believer in the idea that there are a limited amount of human stories that we tell - there's about seven of them - and of course, there's variations on those stories, and they can take place in infinite places.
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When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.
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I'm working on my music - I've taken a little break from it and want to get back into that.
