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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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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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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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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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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I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
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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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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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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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Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.
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I'm the voice of honesty.
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Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.
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Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
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Artists who are passionate about their music and in love with their art go independent because they want to continue making music and serving it to the world.
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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?
