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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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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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 never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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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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For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.
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Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
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I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.
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Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).
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You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—
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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.
