Nickolas Ashford Quotes

• I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really.

  Nickolas Ashford

  New York, Real, Sky

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• I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  "Still Solid, 40 Years Later: Ashford And Simpson". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. September 11, 2006.

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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

  Pain, Kids, Suffering

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• You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Moving, Cities, Bigger Than Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Running, Years, Sweat

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• 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

  Love You, Different, Clubs

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