Rick James Quotes

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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  • Time

• I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

  

  Vik Muniz
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  • Career

• I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

  

  Patch Adams
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• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
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• For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we'll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
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  • History
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• We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
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  • Money

• It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

  

  Parker Posey
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• Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

  

  Feist
  • Life
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• Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
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• You have a choice about how you react when someone pushes your fear button. No one else controls how you think. No one else controls how you react. You alone do that.

  

  Gary Smalley
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• Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

  

  John Milton
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  • Delight

• I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

  

  Rick James
  • Trying