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It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

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• Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Educated
  • Witty
  • Proverbs

• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Music
  • Like
  • Artists

• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Intimidates

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

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Always

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I like a quiet life.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Life
  • Like
  • Quiet

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Doing

• 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
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• In married life three is company and two none.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Company
  • Married

• I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.

  

  Lizzo
  • Work
  • Music
  • Why

• For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Life
  • Different
  • Country

• At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

  

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon
  • Live
  • Hands
  • Labour

• I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut

• It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

  

  Brian May Queen
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