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.
Nancy Allen -
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.
Adam Dell -
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
Sally Ride -
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.
Kaskade -
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!
Harold Feinstein -
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Faith Hill
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My music is a luxury.
Lana Del Rey -
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
Daniel Barenboim -
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
Sampha -
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.
K. Flay -
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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?
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.
Andrew Marvell -
I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music, I think about gold, blood rushing... I like to keep it really warm and glittery.
Charli XCX -
I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.
Martin Garrix Area21 -
I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music. I'm an East Coaster - I'm from New Jersey, so I'll probably feel like that forever.
Charlie Puth
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Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.
Jamie Dimon -
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
Fats Domino -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
David Stras -
I've always been pretty athletic.
Drew Roy -
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
Johnny Otis