John Updike Quotes
He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?John Updike
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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 -
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger -
It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
T. J. Perkins -
There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
Gary Clark Jr. -
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
Dana Carvey -
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I've been loving music all my life.
Randy Savage
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
M.I.A. -
I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
Lana Del Rey -
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
W. H. Auden -
I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
Rachel Nichols -
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen -
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.
Harmony Korine -
Reading music is good for training, getting things done in a hurry. It doesn't teach you nothing about feeling.
Jaimoe -
If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.
Kim Nam-joon BTS -
I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.
Mary Berry -
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
Charles Stanley -
He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?
John Updike