King Tuff Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.
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There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.
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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.
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I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.
