Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I think I need security.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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The world invited me many places.
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Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.
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I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.
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Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution.
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I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
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In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.
