Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes

Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer wrt lack of successful "conscious" music... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?

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• If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Change
  • Me

• With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Hard

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • You
  • Difference
  • Driven

• Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Age

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Know

• I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Love
  • Want
  • Reading

• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Democracy
  • Problems
  • Land

• Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Age
  • Past
  • Teenager

• It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Woman
  • Drink
  • Her

• We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Football

• I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Anger

• I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• 'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Amazing
  • Couple
  • Horse

• C'est toi qui l'as nommé.

  

  Jean Racine

• I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Up
  • Music
  • Hate

• Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Music
  • Green

• It is now clear that the controversial practices of companies that provide directories and an easy interface to libraries of unlicensed music are in fact detrimental to the growth of the music business and those artists whom they claim to support.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Music
  • Business
  • Support

• Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer wrt lack of successful "conscious" music... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?

  

  Vernon Reid
  • Music
  • Brand
  • Hole