Harlan Howard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
-
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
-
People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
-
Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
-
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
-
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
-
If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
-
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
-
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
-
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
-
It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
-
If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
-
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
-
When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
-
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
-
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
-
Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
-
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
-
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
-
Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.
-
So much of me is because of what my parents experienced in this country. So much of me is because of the things my parents overcame so that I could have the luxury of having a dream.
-
I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.
-
Cooking puts me at ease; it gives me control over what's happening, and I know that the finished product is gonna be good, so I'm gonna be satisfied. That's kind of how I keep myself grounded.
-
Country music is three chords and the truth.
