Frankie Banali Quotes
I have to be honest with you, I feel sorry for new musicians, I admire them no end, as they have the same desire that I had as a kid growing up, wanting to be a musician. The big problem now is that the major labels aren’t signing any new bands, there was a time when independent labels were doing it, but a lot of them don’t exist anymore.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
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All labels are offensive in some way.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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I have to be honest with you, I feel sorry for new musicians, I admire them no end, as they have the same desire that I had as a kid growing up, wanting to be a musician. The big problem now is that the major labels aren’t signing any new bands, there was a time when independent labels were doing it, but a lot of them don’t exist anymore.
