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I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about light, people

I could never want to be in a band where the ultimate good job I could do is to really impersonate somebody a lot. What kind of a life is that?

Quote by Sebastian Bach about good, good luck, life

The only kind of music that I want to do is good music, because I don't like rules or doing what is expected of me.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about music, rules, good, good luck

No great poetry, of whatever kind, is conceivable unless the subject has become integrated with the poet's mind and mood.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poetry, mind, poets

The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the Iliad and Beowulf and the Song of Roland from what it is in Milton and Tasso and Virgil.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets, spirit

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about old, olderness, man

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Quote by Francis Bacon about revenge, justice, law, nature, man

The movies were for me a kind of patronage that allowed me to keep studying dance.

Quote by Victoria Abril about dance

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Quote by Kathy Acker about expectation, language

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about action, dream

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

Quote by Erykah Badu about medicine, music, good, good luck

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Quote by Erykah Badu about respect, art, magic, people

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Quote by Erykah Badu about gifts, society, talent, people, being, work, good, good luck

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Quote by Douglas Adams about dream, life

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Quote by Douglas Adams about integrity, impossible

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be...

Quote by Walter Bagehot about circumstances, habits, man

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Quote by Derek Bailey about nation, people

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Quote by Derek Bailey about music, being

It seems to me that the general scene that free improvisers work in now is a kind of goulash of different musics; it is much better.

Quote by Derek Bailey about work

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

Quote by Derek Bailey about work, people