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Morgan Freeman - "When he
(Nelson Mandela) said he'd prefer I be the one to play him...I had to start then (preparing for the role). I contacted him
shortly afterwards. I said I have to have access to you, touch your hand."
Jamie Foxx - "I learned how
to sing by teaching people. Music was my passion. I didn't know I had a voice. I was minister of music (at his grandmother's
church) for the choir and I would teach people parts (alto, tenor, soprano, etc...)."
Canton Jones - "A
lot of dudes doing Hip-Hop are my friends. Mainstream...are Christians. Most times (people) are quick to judge...I'm not a
person to judge." Gamble and Huff - "We started dreaming together about the business of making music a life long career.
The botton line is you got to make a living. We had a band and was writing songs trying to make a hit." - Gamble "Gamble started Gamble Records and signed the Intruders." - Huff "The Intruders were one of my favorite groups at the time...we were doing singles."
- Gamble Ann and Nancy of Heart - "We do not have a set formula for songwriting. The song tells us what it wants
to do. It's hard to pin-point. Some times it comes in all different ways. You may dream of a melody that just flies from the
air or you may sit down and try to write a song or you may have a nip of an idea or you may have a little bit of lyrics that
roll into a song."
Jermaine Dupri - "If I am going to work with you I am going to bring out what I think you have in you or I am not going to work
with you"
Bill Duke (actor/director) - "It
(a project) has to touch me emotionally, if it does, then it will touch my audience also on an emotional level. I have to
feel something and I do everything I can to make the audience feel it also." Raven-Symone' - "My career started when I was 16 months old, I was modeling and we moved to New York and
I was signed to the Ford Agency. At an audition for "Ghost Dad" (starring Bill Crosby) Sidney Poitier was in the
room and told Bill Crosby, ‘you need to see her,' I was three years old and that's how I got on the Crosby Show."
Will.i.am (Black Eye Peas) - "At
this point of time in American history the NAACP has to push even harder than it did before. Blacks being able to vote and
Obama in the White-House...!! Quincy Jones, Berry White and Berry Gordy forced America to acknowledge black artists."
Shirley Caesar - "Gospel music is a big business, bigger than classical, blues and country because there are
so many facets of it, from Blue Grass Gospel to Contemporary Gospel."
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