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People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the music of the Beatles.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this is what I wanted to do.
- Wonderful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be. I just want to have the opportunity to be able to bring that to some young people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people have come to know that I am not comfortable in a box, you know, and that I love music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think that all you do is record, and it's not the case. You take on other projects as well, and you have to live a little bit because it inspires your work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people judge a singer like Beyonce by what they see on the surface. Knowing the musicians she's worked with and how she works, I have a lot of respect for her.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020