Donny Hathaway Quotes

When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

Donny Hathaway

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
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• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
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• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
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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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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
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• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
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• I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

  

  J. Cole
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• I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

  

  Halsey
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• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.

  

  Alan Thicke
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• I smiled at him but knew it did not reach my eyes. I smiled because he smiled at me, more reflex than emotion. Inside I was nothing. It was a little like being in shock. Shock is nature's insulation, the thing that shuts you down so you can heal, or sometimes so you can die without hurting, or being afraid...

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
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• I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
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• I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

  

  Peter Scott
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• The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.

  

  Bill Flores
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• When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.

  

  Donny Hathaway
  • Music
  • Style