Stefon Harris Quotes
If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying to be a classical percussionist, I think I was a more lyrical percussionist; melody is the heart and soul of the music.
Stefon Harris
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
Malcolm McDowell
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Lady Bird Johnson
I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
Earl Scruggs
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
Qandeel Baloch
The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula
I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
Gavin DeGraw
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
Lady Gregory
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
Xun Kuang
A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.
Fernando Pessoa
Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart’s content, the fog won’t lift.
Samuel Beckett
And the world said, Child, you will not be missed.You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road;Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you:Man is the judgment of the world.
Randall Jarrell
Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
Tupac Shakur
Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.
Bertrand Russell
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
James Hillman
I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
Buzz Aldrin
Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.
Napoleon Hill
...the really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it...
Randall Jarrell
We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.
Gary Sheffield
If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying to be a classical percussionist, I think I was a more lyrical percussionist; melody is the heart and soul of the music.
Stefon Harris
