John Roy Anderson Quotes
I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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I don't study; I create.
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I love women more than anything.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
