H. L. Mencken Quotes

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

H. L. Mencken

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• I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Good
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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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  • Happy
  • Happiness

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

  

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

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
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• With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Try
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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Take

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Help
  • Me

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Live
  • Reach

• I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Dance

• If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Good
  • Music
  • Believe

• Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Mind
  • Trying

• I don't know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we've definitely had a few through the years.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Why

• Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • People
  • Single

• When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Suffering

• The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • God