Frankie Knuckles Quotes

#1. As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

Nick Frost

#2. When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

Frankie Knuckles

#3. I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

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#4. The music is everything to me.

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#5. The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

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#6. I ball my hand into a fist, swing back, and let my knuckles crack against his jaw. "Motherfucker," he moans, pushing me away as blood rushes from his mouth. He

Frankie Love

#7. I believe it also says that I am a friend to everyone and enemy to no one.

Frankie Knuckles

#8. There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.

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#9. I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I'll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

Jason O'Mara

#10. It's our job in education to free up time for innovation. It's our job to open their minds to new ideas. It's our job to prepare them for the present and future possibilities.

A.J. Juliani

#11. I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

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#12. Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real.

Marty Rubin

#13. I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.

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#14. The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

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#15. It's not easy staying relevant in the marketplace.

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#16. Timing is everything. It is not so much about who you know, especially now with the Internet, because anybody can become a superstar overnight.

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#17. A friend of mine that happened to be a DJ at another club actually offered me a job [as a DJ]. I didn't think I could do it but he said, "You know all the music. You are at all the parties, and everybody knows you."

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#18. I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now.

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#19. House Music isn't black or white.
It just is.
It feels good & it feels right.

Frankie Knuckles

#20. Commas' nourishes your desires and full-stop kills.

Chandan Sharma

#21. I am definitely in the right place doing the right thing. These are the rewards.

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#22. I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.

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#23. I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.

Alison Goldfrapp

#24. Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

Michael Owen

#25. I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything.

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#26. Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
And thy maker is not by;
Think not thou canst weep a tear
And thy maker is not near.

William Blake

#27. I think women's ears are a lot more sensitive. Men are going to follow whatever appeals to women.

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#28. Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

Emeril Lagasse

#29. I had to make her mine, she had to be mine. Now. Yesterday. Tomorrow. Every fucking tomorrow. No games, no more pain. Just me and her, loving and laughing. Living. Really living. Fuck, I could live if I had her. I could really live.

Lucian Bane

#30. No more running, no more half living, starving or fear. You have it better than me now, I think.

Patricia Hamill

#31. I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

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#32. There is always a point in the party where I wouldn't say I have people in the palm of my hands, but when there is a point in the evening ... if you have been to any great party, you know when the whole room becomes one.

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#33. I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.

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#34. I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

Charlton Heston