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Dianne Reeves Quotes

The music industry is changing. You only hear a sprinkling of big names, but there are a lot of really wonderful young musicians with great voices and lyrical content who have refined their sound. They're up in here, so don't think they're not. There's this wealth of talent below the surface that's ready to explode.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 23, 1956

Topics

Music Great Talent Think Musicians

For me, the litmus test to know whether or not I'm doing the right thing is to examine whether my decisions are love-based or fear-based.

Me Doing The Right Thing Decisions

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Writing Action Loved Die Lost Hard

If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

Good Day I Am Think You Television

One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

Great Job Smart You Move On Know

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

Music Start Want Okay Something

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

Music People Brain Free Think You

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

Future Music People Think Out Get

I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.

Diego Della Valle

Family Father Business Great Man Me

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

Denise Morrison

Power People Potential Excited Get

No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater.

Present Feel You Play Matter Stage

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

Action Comedy Cry Want Sit Rather

Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers.

Power Energy You Important Natural

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