James Bay Quotes
How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
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In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
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But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
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In my min,d there is arguably a greater risk of a default on the debt of a U.S. state than there is on the debt of a euro-area member. I consider it unthinkable that a euro-area country would default.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.
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How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
