Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
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I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
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The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
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Everybody's family plays them music, and my grandma used to play a lot of old-school stuff, like Ron Isley and Gladys Knight. Earth, Wind & Fire is the one I started paying attention to. My uncle introduced me to R&B, like Dru Hill, 112 and all those dudes.
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I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes, ... We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record.
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I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
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What I need as a player is just to get at-bats, I think.
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I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
