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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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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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 think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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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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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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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'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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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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I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?
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I go anywhere in the world they tell me to go, any time they tell me to, to fight anybody they want me to fight. I move my family anywhere they tell me to move to, on a day's notice, and I live in whatever quarters they assign me. I work whenever they tell me to work... and I like it.
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There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.
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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.
