Steve Winwood Quotes
To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!
Quotes to Explore
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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A will finds a way.
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I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
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I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
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Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
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Labels are for cans, not people.
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To make a living from doing something I love is fantastic. As long as people want to listen to me, I'll keep doing it. In fact, to tell you the truth, even if no one did want to listen to me, I'd still be doing it!
