Elihu Burritt Quotes
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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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 think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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I love Denver.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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My pure love is playing music.
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After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
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Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
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When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.
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Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.
