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.Max Roach
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov -
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.
Wale -
I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
Victoria Justice -
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.
E. P. Thompson -
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
Kamala Harris -
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.
Gary Clark Jr.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
Rachel Maddow -
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.
E. L. Doctorow -
I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
Pat Summitt -
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken -
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
Kamala Harris -
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Francesca Annis
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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.
Yehuda Berg -
In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
Dan Shechtman -
We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga -
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
Zainab Salbi -
It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
Damien Chazelle
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
William Shakespeare -
I’m not trying to lead a movement. I am just trying to inspire and promote health and happiness.
Bassnectar -
Having freed ourselves from the constraints of evolution, humans nevertheless remain dependent on the earth’s biological and geochemical systems. By disrupting these systems—cutting down tropical rainforests, altering the composition of the atmosphere, acidifying the oceans—we’re putting our own survival in danger.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
The United States Air Force didn't even become a separate service until 1947.
Harry M. Wyatt III -
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.
Max Roach