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Roy Ayers Quotes

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: September 10, 1940

Topics

New York Me Energy New Want Always

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Relationship People Me Kind Hardest

'LIFE Magazine' decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that the fellow who was doing the story on me said, 'Listen, kid, I just want you to know, if Eisenhower gets a cold, you're off the cover.'

Life Me Cold Story Doing Remember

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Martin Van Buren

Limits Acting Possible Always Within

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

Way Rhythm Always Big Playing Been

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Wisdom Experience Lost Illusions Our

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

Jonas Gahr Store

History War Facts New Stage Ground

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Chord Overstreet

Parents Me Small Guitar Three First

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.

Business Struggle People Energy

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

Bruce Feirstein

Loving Movies Write Always Up Them

I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers.

Money Worth First Out Got Teenagers

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

Work Happy People Proud Strong Way

Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result of the sectarian violence from 2005-2007, women retreated to their homes and fell from public view.

Education Women War View Result

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