George Winston Quotes
I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
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Is that a real country?
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I'm ducked the fuck down while I'm writin this rhyme, cause I'm probably gonna get struck with lightning this time.
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Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
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I write based on how I feel.
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.
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I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.
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I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.
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I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.
