Usher Quotes
Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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South Central is just who I am.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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My music has always been enough.
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I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
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I want to write music that will outlive me.
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He tried the luxury of doing good.
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
