Jimi Hendrix Quotes
It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
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The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
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There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.
