Nickolas Ashford Quotes

#1. I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

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#2. It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.

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#3. But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

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#4. We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

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#5. I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

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#6. You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

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#7. I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.

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