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.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• 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.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Projects
  • Brought
  • Several

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• 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.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Music
  • End
  • Short

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Done
  • Community
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Why
  • Way
  • Like

• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Goal
  • Acting

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• I got the script, read the script, really liked it.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Read
  • Script
  • Like It

• Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Art

• In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Earth
  • Evil

• There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Music
  • Trust

• We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • People
  • Different
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Earth