Andra Day Quotes
Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.
Quotes to Explore
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.
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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
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Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.
