Lauryn Hill Quotes
I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
Quotes to Explore
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.
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I See you.
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In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
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I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.
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People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.
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I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
