Bobby Rush (Emmett Ellis Jr.) Quotes
I guess you can find about 20 guys that I like, and when you hear my music, you can hear a little of this, a little of that, a little up, a little down. You put ‘em all in a bowl and stir ‘em up, you get a Bobby Rush.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
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I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.
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Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
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I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.
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I guess you can find about 20 guys that I like, and when you hear my music, you can hear a little of this, a little of that, a little up, a little down. You put ‘em all in a bowl and stir ‘em up, you get a Bobby Rush.
