Bootsy Collins Quotes

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

Bootsy Collins

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• When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Ego

• When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Age
  • Lost

• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Deep
  • Language

• No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Television

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Research

• But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Become
  • Rhythm

• 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
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Blues

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Real

• We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Music

• 'Would you give my warmest regards to Sir Arthur Wellesley? Or Lord Wellington as we must now call him.' 'You know him, sir?' 'Of course. We were at the Royal Academy of Equiation together, at Angers. It's strange, Major, how your greatest soldier was taught to fight in France.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Together
  • Soldier

• I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Believe

• Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

  

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • Desire

• Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • Music
  • Together
  • Boat