Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.
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When making the first album, I think I wrote a song about every six months. The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
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Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
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My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.
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All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.
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As long as people are using the Internet, people are going to do stupid stuff, and people are going to do bad stuff. And by the time that robots are sentient, they're going to enslave us anyway, so it won't matter.
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I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.
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I am the place in which something has occurred.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
