Sevyn Streeter Quotes

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

Sevyn Streeter

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The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

Jerry Garcia

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Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

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There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

John Fogerty

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Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?

Andie MacDowell

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I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

Sonny Sandoval

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Rita Dove

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Sen. McCain isn't someone who strikes you as a particularly dynamic speaker. He doesn't seem to like the formality of giving speeches. He clearly isn't too comfortable reading off a TelePrompter.

Mike Gallagher

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I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

Michelle Gomez

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In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.

Michio Kaku

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Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.

Michael K. Williams

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I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.

Jason Isbell

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