Max Roach Quotes
They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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I need one more bass less.
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We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.
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What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.
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They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.
