Barges famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I am pro-life. I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

  • Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

  • I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

  • I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!

  • I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.

  • It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

  • All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

  • It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.

  • Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

  • The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.