Steve Winwood Quotes
The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music. It's to the detriment of the business in some aspects. In many ways, you might say this is not the time to be going back to the majors, it's the time to be leaving them, which is a good point.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!
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Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.
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Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music. It's to the detriment of the business in some aspects. In many ways, you might say this is not the time to be going back to the majors, it's the time to be leaving them, which is a good point.
