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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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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I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
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Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
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The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
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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.
