Quotes About Opportunity

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never thought I would be writing one.

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

I woud definitely want to collaborate with Indian musicians.

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?

I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.

If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

I didn't want 'Ramy' to be a commercial, like 'Hey, Muslims are good!' We're underrepresented, so the instinct when we get an opportunity like this is to show people that we're good, that we have the same shared values. What's more important to me is showing that we have the same flaws.

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

An interview is about mutual selection.

After I'd met her, a mutual friend prompted me to ask her out for dinner, but she said she had a night shoot. I thought it was her gentle way of rejecting me. The next day she invited me for a drink at the Pierre hotel, which turned into a three-hour talk.

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

My friend was interning at the Miss India office and asked me to go for an audition. I just wanted to clear one basic round to show it to my friends. 'I'm in this mind space, and I can do this, losers.' I cleared the first round, and then I wanted to do more.

One day, I was auditioning for some other thing and my friend was auditioning for 'Laila Majnu.' She asked me to come with her so that we could leave together. While I was waiting, the guy who was taking the audition said, 'Why don't you give it a try.'

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.