quotes about Barges

“I am pro-life. I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.”

“Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.”

Source : "Fred Hammond on His New Group United Tenors, and the Return of the Male Gospel Ensemble". Interview with Nakiyah Hayling, www.essence.com. March 23, 2013.

“I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.”

“I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!”

“I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.”

Source : "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

“It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.”

“All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.”

“It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.”

“Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.”

“The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.”