"Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant."

-- Warryn Campbell

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“I try to give my kids everything I never had.”

Source : "Dancing's William Levy Exposed!" by Michelle Tauber, Elaine Aradillas, people.com. April 11, 2012.
“Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence.”
“I'm my biggest critic. I want there to be no flaws when you hear it. When I think that maybe it's ready, I just hop in my car it's gotta have some bump - and go to corner stores, youngsters on the block, play it for anyone. If they get into it, I get a reaction, the song passes the hyphy test. If it's just cool, we throw it away; it's not going on the record. But if it makes you wanna move - seriously - if it makes you react the same way I felt, then it passes.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“One thing for sure - a sheep is not a creature of the air.”
“Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.”
“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.”
“The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes.”
“Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.”

Source : Dan Wakefield (2010). “Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life”, p.11, Beech River Books

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