Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.
Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.
I am very happy here [on Cuba], but I feel I have work to do in the United States. It's where I can identify with the total world struggle for socialism. But I think as a North American, as a Black North American, I have certain understandings - certain contributions - to make that are unique to the North Amerian experience.
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
Everyone contributes something different to the mind, body and spirit.
As women, we have to realize what we bring to the table. What do you want to do for the world? How do you want to change it? And when you know that, you don't have to compare yourself to anybody else.
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.
It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater possibilities and grander heights.
Go where you add value. Don't look for places where you're just like everybody else.
Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.
I think the most diverse group will produce the best product; I firmly believe that.
I'm glad that we can add something new to the fold that Metallica's not going to bring to the table, and they're going to do what they do.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.
I don't feel bound by my face or my body. I don't feel like that's the biggest gift I have to offer the world. I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.
