Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

• Music
• Air
• Purity

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Guitar

• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Strange
  • Two

• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Black
  • Rock

• I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.

  

  J Mascis
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Fans
  • Seeing

• There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Trying

• I grew up listening to a lot of Malaysian pop music, which is kind of like a mixture of traditional and pop... I was also listening to a lot of English music as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kind

• I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Love
  • Power

• I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • War
  • Support

• A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Music
  • Always
  • Noise

• In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Game
  • Air
  • Sun

• What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Time
  • Music
  • Remember

• I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Law
  • Tennis

• The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time. God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Running
  • Best

• Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Music
  • Air
  • Purity