Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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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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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
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Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.
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When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
