George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
George Bernard Shaw
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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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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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
Gad Elmaleh
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
Xavier Dolan
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I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.
Maceo Parker
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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
Wagner Moura
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
E. O. Wilson
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
T Bone Burnett
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Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
Ian McLagan
Small Faces
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
Will Durant
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Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.
Ethel Merman
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I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.
D'Angelo
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It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
Barry Sheene
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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
George Bernard Shaw
