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I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#blues #built #contemporary #contemporary music #depth

It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#both #club #different #get #i

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#been #bring #certainly #chess #down

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#dinner #dinner parties #everyone #happen #i

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#anything #ashley #do the right thing #doing #doing the right thing

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#action #care #characters #happens #i

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#doing #else #found #going #i

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#brother #chronicles #comic #comic books #growing

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#good #good job #job #play #pretty