Famous Quotes: Music

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
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In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
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Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
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The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
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I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.
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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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The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.
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To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
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People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
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I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.
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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
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But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
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