Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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If the home is good, all will be good.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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If I commit to pros, I really got to stick to it, and I think it was a good decision.
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It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I'll want to show people the darker side... But right now, I'm having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.
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I feel like my music is for everybody. As long as the music is good, I can please everybody.
