Quincy Jones I’d been in love before – I was always in love. – Quincy Jones Love Quotes My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door. The climate in the ’50s and ’60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
Johnny Mathis Mitch Miller knew exactly what he wanted me to sing. He didn’t want me to improvise at all. – Johnny Mathis
Seth Shostak The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there – on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right – noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life – the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover. – Seth Shostak
Molly Crabapple Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars, and that’s seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. – Molly Crabapple
Steven Pinker Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we’re exposed to an infectious world. – Steven Pinker
Nish Kumar As a kid who illegally streamed ‘The Daily Show’ it has always been a goal of mine. – Nish Kumar
Carol Vorderman My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. – Carol Vorderman
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