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Gregory Hines

"Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs."

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"Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Asa Don Brown

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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Asa Don Brown

"Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy."

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Asa Don Brown

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."

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Asa Don Brown

"I want music, I don't want stupidity, (Hey)... (mey)... I don't give a shit, so far it sounds like stupidity changes tracks and it's on the track and it waits to appear!"

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Gregory Hines
"It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging."

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Gregory Hines
"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance."

Dance

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Gregory Hines
"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."

Life

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Gregory Hines
"I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work."

Work

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Gregory Hines
"I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black."

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Gregory Hines
"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."

Sense

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Gregory Hines
"I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done."

Time

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Gregory Hines
"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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Gregory Hines
"You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair."

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Gregory Hines
"My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream."

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