#amp

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to. ↗

— Coco Lee

#because #bring #flavor #grew #i

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#donations #existing #i #laws #received

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#aspects #dark #dark side #deal #elements

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three. ↗

— John Legend

#amp #anybody #between #black #black music

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#attracted #bass #became #being #bought

Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#been #bickering #camp #founded #i

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me. ↗

— Jared Leto

#early #examples #how #i #learned

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#artist #artists #connects #example #father

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. ↗

— Carl Levin

#against #campaign #crucial #iraq #liberation

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗