Ray J (William Ray Norwood Jr.) Quotes

Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial legacy.

Ray J

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• I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Man
  • Better
  • Problems

• You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • People
  • Light
  • Down

• Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Country
  • Talent

• And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Write

• It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

  

  Van Morrison
  • America
  • Me
  • Strange

• I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Playing
  • Casual
  • Sessions

• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Bad
  • Me
  • First

• Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • End
  • Without

• I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Queen

• The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Wall
  • Going
  • Build

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• Truth does not belong to an individual.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Truth

• You gotta go do research on the way they treat like fucking chickens, man. Those chickens go through fucking torture before they’re processed and shit, have all sorts of fucking steroids injected in them and everything.

  

  ASAP Rocky

• Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Winning

• In a typical day, I would wake up about 8 A.M., pile all my stuff into my mom's minivan - my guitar, my amp, CDs to sell, a table and a rug - drive it down to the street, and unload it all. I'd wait until about 12, then play for two hours. You could only play in two-hour intervals, so then I would move it all somewhere else.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up
  • Mom

• I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Mom

• I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Question

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Like

• I had no idea what awaited me when I took a job with CBS Records, and it was a total surprise to find I had a gift and an ear for music.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Music
  • Job

• Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial legacy.

  

  Ray J
  • Music
  • Create
  • Legacy