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Dwight Yoakam Quotes

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Focus Yourself Opinions You Artist

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

Character Creative People Think You

I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.

Music People Me Voice Hill Jazz

They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.

Time Free Better Know Run Whatever

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Greatness Believe Process I Believe

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.

Work Home Morning Great American Up

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

Father Mother Teacher Parents Early

I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.

Christopher Meloni

Place Say Bali Favorite Visited

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

Christina Hendricks

Attention Focused Started Something

I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.

Love Music Together People Moving

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Age Old Age Man Opinions Body Meet

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Teacher Great Magic Know Us Been

We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.

Women Woman Man Fight Generation

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