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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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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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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The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.
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I hope some of these new young rock 'n' roll country guys enjoy themselves... I'm not trying to knock them, but if some of that's country music, then I'm a Chinaman.
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I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
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Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
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Music is the solvent to the world's problems. In many ways, it's the only one we've got.
