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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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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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
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Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.
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They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast Seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell 'C'est la vie', say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
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I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
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Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
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People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.
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I started doing stand-up when I was 16, my junior year in high school. My two friends and I would sit at home watching stand-up. They kept saying I should try it, and so I did.
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I'm not doing any more music films!
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
