David Sanborn Quotes

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

David Sanborn

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LifeLoveMusicGreatMeThought

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

Jewel

FreeMoreBandWithoutImprovise

When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.

John Grant

PainJoyWritingHumanWriteBeing

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

Andry Rajoelina

FuturePeopleChooseLibertyOwn

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

Amy Klobuchar

ThoughtFairy TaleYouAlwaysFairy

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

Sonia Sotomayor

HopeYourselfOptimismHappyPeople

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

WorkLoveOurHumanness

If you know your destination, choosing a route - while not trivial - is manageable.

Tom Steyer

DestinationYouKnowYourRoute

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Rory Bremner

I CanTryNonsenseThingsSenseLot

I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.

Michael Nutter

LifeSnowRainPeopleColdBelieve

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Michael Moore

EducationMyselfSchoolMeLiving

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

Lorna Luft

MotherPeopleCrazyGoWayNever

If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

Chris Messina

CharacterAloneSpacePeopleCity

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