I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.
The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison.
Nas is the only person whose concert I been to.
I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.
I don't actually go to that many concerts.
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.
It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
