Colman Domingo Quotes
I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
-
I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
-
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
-
It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
-
I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
-
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
-
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
-
I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
-
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
-
Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
-
I admire people who destroy themselves.
-
Boxing is a noble sport.
-
I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
-
I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
-
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
-
If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come.
-
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.
-
I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.
-
To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
-
I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.
-
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.
-
For me, everything happens for a reason. I'm thankful that it happened because it saved me from the past, and now I can move forward and meet the person that was destined to be with me."
-
And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.
-
I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
