Demetria McKinney Quotes
I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.
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I really love storytelling.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
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When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don’t have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people.
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'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.
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I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
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For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s
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My wife and I got married on 12/12/12 in Las Vegas, and she was wearing a Slayer T-shirt. That tells you what kind of woman I'm lucky enough to be with.
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Whether it's police officers, firefighters, first responders, or 911 dispatchers, many dedicated Americans work long hours, and often in difficult conditions, to make sure that when someone's in need, they can help.
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The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.
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I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.
