Anderson Paak Quotes

If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and the fundamentals - so you're not some bozo thinking you're doing something new.

Anderson Paak

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

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• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

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• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

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• I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

  

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• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

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• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

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• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

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• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

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• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  

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• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

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• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

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• The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

  

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• When I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, 'Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field - they're all doing incredible work.'

  

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• If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and the fundamentals - so you're not some bozo thinking you're doing something new.

  

  Anderson Paak
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  • Thinking
  • Black