Lamont Dozier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
-- Lamont Dozier

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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
-- Lamont Dozier

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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Lamont Dozier famous quotes

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