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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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.
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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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The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.
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Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
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Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.
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Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it, water immediately comes up. So drive your pipe into the ground. Tap into the water of compassion.
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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.
