Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.
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We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
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Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
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Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.
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Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
