Jon Secada Quotes

#1. For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

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#2. I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.

Dominick Dunne

#3. My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

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#4. So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

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#5. With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

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#6. Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be ... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

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#7. When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

Buddy Hackett

#8. This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

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#9. If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

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#10. I feel really good in the teacher role.

Jimmy Chamberlin

#11. Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

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#12. Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

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#13. There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

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#14. Discomfort was where I was most comfortable.

Sophia Amoruso

#15. I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

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#16. Choose some sport or other vigorous physical exercise that is consistent with your situation and physical condition and be regular in pursuing it. Get the blood circulating and give your major muscles a workout.

Joe J. Christensen

#17. If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too.

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#18. I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick.

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#19. I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

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#20. I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

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#21. I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

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#22. I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

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#23. I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

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#24. My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

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#25. And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

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#26. What absurd fellows you are, both of you! I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.

Oscar Wilde

#27. I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

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#28. A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

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#29. I'm a big believer in education, period.

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#30. You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

Jennifer Connelly

#31. You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

Don Miguel Ruiz

#32. Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

Kathy Mattea

#33. There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great.

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#34. Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

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#35. For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.

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#36. Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Alexander Pope

#37. And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

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#38. It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

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#39. So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Taiye Selasi

#40. Loving someone is waking up a little bit earlier than they do so you can pray for their day.

Melissa Z

#41. There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

Zhuangzi