Ella Mai Quotes
My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish and pipeclay' school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.
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I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
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Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.
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My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.
