Chris Rea Quotes

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

You can't trust anybody with power.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jayalalitha is a performing monkey in the hands of Sasikala.

If people think the boss is manipulating them to get them to work harder, it backfires.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

I said 'no' nine times when Kanye asked me to work with him because I liked being friends with him. Then he put me in a position where I couldn't say no: He just told everyone I was his manager.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He Says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.