Simon Rattle Quotes
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
Simon Rattle
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
Randy West
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
LaToya London
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
Olly Murs
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
Lady Gaga
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
Ian Williams
Battles
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I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'
Hansika Motwani
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'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.
Daniel Barenboim
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It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it
Lata Mangeshkar
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And we danced;Out there on that empty hardwood floor.The chairs up and the lights turned way down lowThe music played, we held each other close.And we danced.Like no one else had ever danced before.I can't explain what happened on that floor.But the music played,We held each other close,And we danced.Yeah, we danced.
Brad Paisley
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
Pat Buchanan
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I go to Costco every weekend. It's my favorite part of the week.
Jimmy Kimmel
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I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
Gary Numan
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New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.
Jay-Z
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I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
Simon Rattle
