Linton Kwesi Johnson Quotes
Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
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There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person.
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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
