Maurice White Quotes
I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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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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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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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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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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I don't need to be married, but I feel married.
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I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.
