Carla Bley Quotes
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
Carla Bley
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
Malik Bendjelloul
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Ice Cube
You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
Malik Bendjelloul
Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
Taylor Momsen
The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
Jack Keane
When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
K. Flay
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
Kate Bush
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
Gabby Douglas
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
Taylor Swift
Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
Beck
My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
Abraham Verghese
I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
Saffron Aldridge
In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.
Manolo Blahnik
Music can't change the world.
Bob Geldof
How many people, when you watched the LA riots on the news, were like me, watching the people getting hauled out of their cars and beaten half to death? How many people were like me seeing this and thinking 'Step on the fucking gas, man. They're on foot, you're in a truck … I think I see a way outta this.'
Bill Hicks
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
Iain McGilchrist
I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
Angelina Jolie
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
Carla Bley