Abdullah Ibrahim Quotes
Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man.Abdullah Ibrahim
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison -
I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
Sam Hunt -
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
A. R. Rahman -
Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
Kaki King -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
La'Porsha Renae -
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Kate Bush -
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman -
I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
FKA twigs -
When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
Action Bronson -
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson -
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 -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Quincy Jones -
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil -
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
Fats Domino -
I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
Patrick Wang -
My relationships are between me and whomever I'm with, not between me and the world.
Lili Reinhart -
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Virgil Thomson -
Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man.
Abdullah Ibrahim