Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.'

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1932

Topics

BusinessArtRestLearnAmericaYou

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

John Corbett

FatherFutureMoreGoingMoveWould

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.

Angus Young

GoodPeopleGuitarHardRhythmMost

For my first album, I thought it was most important for people to hear my voice and to not let it be drowned out by too many lasers and other sounds.

Ro James

PeopleVoiceThoughtImportantFirst

'Salt' is like this snapshot in midair, an action shot. It's about my relationship with the church, the classical and choral music that I dealt with in school, and my new introduction to jazz. It's very hard for me to listen to from beginning to end, because I hear how lost I was.

Lizz Wright

MusicRelationshipBeginningSchool

I love work, but love is so much better. Love is the best.

Jazmyn Simon

WorkLoveBestLove IsBetterMuch

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

Diane Kruger

StarsLearnYouActorMatterBig

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Chester A. Arthur

LifeBusinessNobodyPrivate Life

The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.

Brian Fallon

MusicTimeManLovedWhiteFirst

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

RichPoorBetweenMostImbalance

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Sydney Smith

SmallImpossibleClothesInvention

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

Tyne Daly

GoodHopeArtYouBackActing

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

YouNothingUnderstandWillNever

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