Nicky Hopkins Quotes
Music is the solvent to the world's problems. In many ways, it's the only one we've got.

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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'
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Music should always be first.
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
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Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.
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I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
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You've got to be pretty mean to pick up on women who only know you from television and then cast them aside.
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Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
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I’m just as human as you. But it’s no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.
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Music is the solvent to the world's problems. In many ways, it's the only one we've got.