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 -
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 -
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant -
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
Lance Reddick -
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman -
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
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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 -
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Ice Cube -
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
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 -
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch Spinoza
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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 -
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans -
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 -
I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
Flume -
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 -
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
M.I.A.
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I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
Jeff Daniels -
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
Angela Ruggiero -
If I get to do only 10 roles, then I should be remembered for all the ten roles.
Keerthy Suresh -
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
Clarence John Laughlin -
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