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Kelela Quotes

No one is making extraordinary things alone. They might be alone in their bedroom while they're recording or writing, but they didn't actually conjure that thing out of nothing - without influence - without assistance - without anything.

Kelela

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1983

Topics

Alone Writing Influence Nothing Out

I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.

Anna Akana

Time Walk Wait Stand Up Stand Doing

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

John Sutter

Father Judge Everything Priest

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.

Ana Tijoux

Time Creativity Simple Thoughts Feel

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball Thought Reach Manager Way

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

Tom Stoppard

You Earth Write Own Your How

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Russell Wilson

Nature Leadership Daily Great Detail

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Martin Parr

Think Ordinary Because Our Familiar

It's different for people who have not seen a symphony conductor conduct from a chair. I feel very connected to the orchestra in a way that a conductor sometimes does not feel. I think it's more visceral.

Joshua Bell

People Think Feel Chair Sometimes

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

Dennis Ross

Work Change Time Wife Government

I come home from work, and depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate or play guitar or watch some 'Monty Python.'

Brent Sexton

Work Home Day Guitar Play Adjust

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

Bob Uecker

Hope Will Never Get Records Even

I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.

Brian Skerry

Water Beach Child Think Remember