Jamie Foxx Quotes

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

I think there are some songs that stand the test of time better than others for sure. I think some songs go out of favour; I'll get sick of a song for a while, and I won't play it; then it'll make a comeback.

When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.

It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.

Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so when it comes to true soul, the guy obviously is the expert.

The message from 'Analog Man' is that I'm back, and it won't be 20 years until the next album.

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and he and my mom encouraged me to start again.

I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn't sell.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

Well, I am not sure of when my album will be released but my music has a lot of different sounds. I'm a hip-hop/R&B girl at heart, but I love pop music as well, and I even have an affinity for country music. So I would say my music might have something for everyone.

Dedicate one's life to truth.

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Just understand, don't choose - don't choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you do, will come out of the calculating mind. It cannot be the real thing. Your mind can only produce dreams, it cannot produce the truth. Truth cannot be produced, nobody can produce it. It is there; it has to be seen. Nothing has to be done, just a look is needed - a look without any prejudice, a look without any choice, a look without any distinctions.

I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.