Sonny Criss famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
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I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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To add to truth distracts from it,
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As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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