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Rick James Quotes

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 1, 1948 - August 6, 2004

Topics

Change Trying More Progressive Funk

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.

Joanne Froggatt

Person Actor Things Like Challenging

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

Jerry Reinsdorf

School High School Class High

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

Basketball Talking Attention Scared

I was raised watching sitcoms, and I love long-form comedy.

Jermaine Fowler

Love Comedy Watching I Was Raised

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

Steven Spielberg

Education Children Choice Born Made

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship Equality Finding Reward

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

People Doing You Down Enemy Salt

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Jorge Luis Borges

Uncertainty Unknown Greeks State

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Competition Remember Seeing Skating

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

Dreams Age Time Politics Night

If you watch a lot of television, the pacing, the quick cutting is so frenetic, but it doesn't always make it funnier. What I'm noticing is that when things are allowed to unspool more slowly, younger crowds really like it. They really appreciate it.

Appreciate You Television More Quick

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Constantin Brancusi

Work Real Realistic Abstract Things

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