Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (Ginuwine) Quotes
If I'm nominated for Grammy I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.
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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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I want every Grammy.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
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The energy Major Lazer presents on stage is guided by sound system sessions of years ago.
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I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
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A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored.
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I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.
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I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.
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What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
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If I'm nominated for Grammy I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.
