Nickolas Ashford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.
-- Nickolas Ashford

#Moving #Cities #Radio
I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.
-- Nickolas Ashford

#New York #Real #Sky
I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.
-- Nickolas Ashford

#Real #Thinking #Artist
I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.
-- Nickolas Ashford

#Running #Years #Sweat
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.
-- Nickolas Ashford

#Pain #Kids #Suffering
It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.
-- Nickolas Ashford

#Love You #Different #Clubs

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

Nickolas Ashford famous quotes

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