Al Jarreau Quotes
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.Al Jarreau
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
Garth Brooks -
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
Samuel Larsen -
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah -
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
Natalie Wood -
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai -
If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker -
We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz -
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard -
I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
Tarvaris Jackson -
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
Barry Diller -
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
Gail Sheehy
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
Olivia Colman -
Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
Rafael dos Anjos -
For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
Ira Sachs -
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
Ted Turner -
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond -
It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
Palmer Luckey
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
Kate Bernheimer -
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
Marina Abramovic -
I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
Karlie Kloss -
Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'
Jake Bugg -
When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.
Nevil Shute -
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
Al Jarreau