Kwame Nkrumah Quotes
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
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I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
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A 3D printer needs three elements: a bit of information, some raw material, some energy, and it can produce any object that was not there before.
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I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
