Steve Porcaro (Steven Maxwell Porcaro) Quotes
We just want to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. Be true to ourselves and make the best music we can. Entertain people which is what we were put on this Earth for.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
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When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.
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The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
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Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
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The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
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In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.
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We just want to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. Be true to ourselves and make the best music we can. Entertain people which is what we were put on this Earth for.
