Teddy Pendergrass Quotes
I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
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What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
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I listened to R. Kelly growing up.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
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We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
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Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.
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I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.
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I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.
