- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020