Johnny Otis Quotes
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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My music is a luxury.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.
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I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
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Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals.
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
