Melvin Van Peebles Quotes
Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
Melvin Van Peebles
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If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
Edie Brickell
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
Barry White
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
Yoko Ono
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My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
Madi Diaz
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In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
Damian Marley
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
Kailash Kher
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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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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
Bruce Springsteen
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Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going to hit the stage and perform.
China Anne McClain
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There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.
Daniel Hope
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If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
Eric Close
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The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
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I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.
Carly Chaikin
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Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Marc Guggenheim
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With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.
Brad Stone
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I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
Frank B. Kellogg
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The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the breakdown of the mechanistic theory even within physics, the science where it was the most successful... Relativity took over in field physics, and the science of quantum theory in microphysics... In view of parallel developments in physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, and economics, many branches of the contemporary sciences became... ‘sciences of organized complexity’ — that is, systems sciences.
Ervin Laszlo
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Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
Melvin Van Peebles
