Steve Winwood Quotes
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
Quotes to Explore
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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'Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.'
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Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.
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I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
