Roy Ayers Quotes

I don't think I'm really so unique. If every black person looked at their life they would quickly discover that they have been influenced by every type of music prevalent in America.

Roy Ayers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters. So I'm always singing around my guys, around the team, during warm-ups, because I think people need to hear this voice. I think they deserve it.

Jimmy Butler

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The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

John Fleming

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I remember loving 'Braveheart,' and I still do! It was one of those films my family had on video and we watched over and over again.

Rose Leslie

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I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

Josh Hopkins

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There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.

Jared Padalecki

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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Jose Saramago

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When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'

Dean Winters

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I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

Christina Ricci

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I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

Chris Robinson

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I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

Pinetop Perkins

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

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There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

Serge Schmemann

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