Wayne Shorter Quotes
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
Pardis Sabeti
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
K. Flay
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
Gary Sinise
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Damien Rice
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.
D'Angelo
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When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.
Roger Waters
Pink Floyd
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
Frances Beinecke
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The prophets... interpreted past history, shaped present history, and foretold future history on the basis of the conviction that God rules with righteousness in the affairs of nations, and that only what is just, and not what is expedient and profitable, shall endure.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.
Paul Watson
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
Wayne Shorter