Maurice White Quotes
Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.
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The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.
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A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
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Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
