Mclorin Salvant Quotes

#1. President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

Rick Perry

#2. I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#3. I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#4. Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

Gavin Bryars

#5. STUDENTS OUT OF BED! STUDENTS OUT OF BED IN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR!

J.K. Rowling

#6. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. What is one boot without the other boot? It is nothing. It is useless, an orphan forevermore, and I could take no mercy on it.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Sharon Gless

#9. I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#10. I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#11. I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#12. I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

Tracy K. Smith

#13. I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#14. I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very rarely listen to my music or even read things that I might've said.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#15. It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#16. Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

Harry Browne

#17. The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#18. I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#19. I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#20. She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss.

Sabrina Jeffries

#21. I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base it on my speaking voice and to just not try to make it sound pretty.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#22. I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#23. Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

Jack Herer

#24. A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche