"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television."

-- Quincy Jones

#Night Quotes #Mtv Quotes #People Quotes

“I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.”
“I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.”
“Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.84, Oxford University Press
“When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.”
“My greatest career moment was when my career ended. Because I focused my entire life on athletics. And not becoming - not exploring other areas in my life - it opened me up to explore the world and other experiences. It was eye-opening.”
“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.”

Source : "A Plea for the Open Mind and Free Discussion" (speech), Albany, N.Y., 24 Oct. 1952
“Life is an Attitude. It's what you Choose to Believe, ALWAYS.”
“I love girls when I never know what there going to do next or what they're going to say.”

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