"I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing."

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Source : "Teena Marie: The women behind the groove". Interview with Lee Tyler, www.bluesandsoul.com.

Teena Marie

#Heart Quotes #Trying Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.”

Source : Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson (2013). “True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny”, p.32, Random House
“When a man declares: "I am sure of my wife," it means he is sure of his wife. But when a woman declares: "I am sure of my husband," it means that she is sure of herself.”
“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”
“You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.”
“I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.”

Source : Source: bluemesareview.org
“There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.”
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.”

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