Pras Michel Quotes

#1. Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Enya

#2. I think there's always room for people to hear different styles of music, especially when it comes from the heart.

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#3. When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

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#4. I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

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#5. I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

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#6. The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

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#7. Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

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#8. As a Muslim, I believe in the concept of fate, that there are certain things out of my control. Thus, what chance do I have to stand against kismet?

Aishah Madadiy

#9. Ignore the ignorant and immature.

Krystal Volney

#10. There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

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#11. Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

Robin McKinley

#12. A couple of people thought I looked familiar, but it was like, No.

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#13. When the true love will blossom, it will be the most beautiful flower.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#14. So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

Kurt Loder

#15. In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

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#16. What matter it if a man gaineth the whole world and loseth his own soul?

Theodore Dreiser

#17. Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

Allan Dare Pearce

#18. When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.

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#19. People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

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#20. Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Robin Hobb

#21. For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

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#22. I knew that this was the movie in which a lot of the cinema version of Burton-esque first started. So, I knew that there were things that were hugely important to him for it, but it didn't really feel that different than working on any other of these projects.

John August

#23. There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.

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#24. I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

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#25. I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

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