Famous Quotes: Music

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
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In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
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With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
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A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
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I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
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There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
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We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
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I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
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