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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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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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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We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.
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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender.
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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
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'Journey' is a way for us to explore the crossing, the intersection of our lives between each other.
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Music is the solvent to the world's problems. In many ways, it's the only one we've got.
