Steve Winwood Quotes
All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.
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I'm really proud of the Time's Up movement, and I hope it continues and it grows stronger and that it can really be established.
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The journey of the soul is a vast, interconnected web, a meshwork of beings that are all working out their individual karmas in a collective gumbo, retaining the special flavor in each bite of life. But, the mystery of where we're going, in terms of whether we're going to have a planet that's worth living on after we finish abusing it, whether we'll wake up in time and stop ruining the water, land and skies is a big question mark.
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes...
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All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.
