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, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
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I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.
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I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
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TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
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I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
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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.
