Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
Quotes to Explore
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
Oriana Fallaci
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
Faith Hill
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Ed Wood
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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When I have young artists who come up and talk about my records and tell me they remember certain songs or that they used to play my records or play my songs, and when they know the music, it just boggles my mind. I love that. It's very rewarding.
Steven Wariner
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To-day, the road all runners come,Shoulder-high, we bring you home,And set you at your threshold down,Townsman of a stiller town.
A. E. Housman
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
Virginia Woolf
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
