Herbie Hancock (Herbert Jeffrey Hancock) Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
J. D. Souther -
Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
Parminder Nagra -
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 opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
Edie Falco -
I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.
Banks
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Faith Hill -
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
Rafael Vinoly -
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater -
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
Ian Williams Battles -
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
Hanns Eisler -
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.
Salman Rushdie -
Music has no limits of a life-span.
Nadine Gordimer -
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
Eduard Hanslick -
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.
Leonard Cohen -
In the heart of the night, when it's dark in the lightsI heard the loudest noise, a gunshot on the floorI looked down and my shirt's turning redI'm spinning around
Backstreet Boys -
The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
Miranda Lambert -
I'm essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories. For me, it's ultimately about a great pair of shoes.
Jessalyn Gilsig -
Imma, blunt blowin, polo draws showin, I don't give a lovely mothafuck ass nigga.
Lil Wayne -
I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I'm not sure why, but we didn't have any ice where I lived. It was very hot - a coastal town.
Margot Robbie -
Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman.
Nicki Minaj -
It is people's hearts that move the age.
Herbie Hancock