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I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Cry
Mic
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Influence
People
Sides
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
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Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Elvis
Giant
Influenced
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Needs
Thinking
Morals
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Bondage
Lord
Deliver
Sang
Praises
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Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Expression
Self
Stills
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Abuse
Self Expression
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When my agent told me he had a voice-over job I thought it was a Disney thing.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Agents
Voice
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Bears
Enjoy
Fragrance
Rose
Thorns
Accept
Must
Which
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
People
Religious
Sacred
Beliefs
Honoured
Religious Beliefs
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Gone
Influence
Rapper
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Rappers
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Moving
Race
Redefining
Myself Always Keep
Constantly
Stay
Hurdles
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I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Meat
Soul
Tunes
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As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Past
Rights
Years
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I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Challenges
Done
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Racist
Religious
World
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I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Done
Moving
Moving Forward
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Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Remember You
Remembers You
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Intolerance
Satire
Begins
Beliefs
Time World Place
Towards
Religious Beliefs
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Bows
Orchestra
Strings
Symphony
Time Always School
Time School Always
Same Time
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I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Emotional
Tunes
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Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Real
Village
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There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Groove
Machines
Mistake
Feed
Musicians
Slight
Strike
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Fun
Simple
Fish
Minds
Opens
Plan
Wondered
Young People
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Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Bread
Cold
Heat
Time Music Your
Maddening
Oven
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Heard
Realised
Africa
African
Drum
Origins
Raw
Rhythms
Villages
Visit
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At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Looks
The End Of The Day
Way
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Boundaries
Freak
Meat
No Boundaries
Love Music Soul
Hang
Hat
Therefore
Tune
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Isaac
Prelude
Presenting
Album
Time Always Opportunity
David
Hit
Perform
Time Opportunity Always
Partner
Porter
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Administration
Birth
Brother
Rhyming
School
Brothers
Express
Schools
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I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Artistic
Compromise
Evidence
My Time
Sample
Time Music Movies
Concentrated
Current
Rappers
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
Isaac Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Past
Religious
Rights
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