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Several record companies had rejected my song ‘Owner of A Lonely Heart’ on the grounds it was ‘too left field.’ I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive’s quarterly profit statement.
‘Cover Me.’ ‘Take Time To Know Her.’ ‘Warm and Tender Love.’ ‘Out Of Left Field.’ ‘Dark End Of The Street.’ ‘Tears Me Up.’ ‘My Special Prayer.’ All points back to one song. ‘When A Man Loves A Woman.’ The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.
To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I have no limitations when it comes to the stuff I want to do musically. So to be able to do something like that I think would be really, really cool.
I’ll play wherever they want me to play -anywhere on the field. Do anything to help the team win. Whether that’s playing left field or third base or wherever, I don’t care.
I’m always very excited by something that’s a curveball or from left field.
I’m sure people think that I’m out in left field you know, playing by myself.
Music is cyclical, but I’ve never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn’t always have an audience that would relate to it.
I have always come out of left field with my stuff.
Hogan’s’ came from left field. It isn’t ‘McHale’s’ and it isn’t ‘Combat.’ You can’t categorize it.
There’s a song called ‘My Faith’ that’s kind of my spiritual song on my record. It’s a little bit of my softer side of me, comin’ out of left field a little bit.
Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don’t want people to expect what is going to happen next.
This phenomenon with Betty White is so wonderfully amazing. In a world where ageism runs rampant, out of left field, all of a sudden, the country decides to celebrate Betty White, and she becomes cool at 90. That’s remarkable.
I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really cool characters that I personally love. Some will be obvious fits, but others will come out of left field – but that’s what’s fun about the Marvel U – the bench is deep.
It’s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it’s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.
Michel Gondry’s ‘Green Hornet’ was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field – I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.
I think ‘The Stage’ is kind of left field.
The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can’t understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
Every time you wanted to do something, you’d hope it would score. You’d keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.’ No one had any idea about that one.
You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that’s good.
The women’s movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on ‘Playboy.’