Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.
Brian D. McLaren
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
B. B. King
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
M.I.A.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
Daniel Barenboim
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I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.
Laura Mvula
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
Sir Isaac Brock KB
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
R. Kelly
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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
Wagner Moura
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Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
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When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
Yuna
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I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.
Xavier Becerra
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There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.
Peter Coyote
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Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them to bring you your license?" Jack said. "Exactly, only without the filth and peasants," Aphrodite said.
P. C. Cast
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
J. D. Vance
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Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.
Charles Boustany
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As I once heard Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan say: “The task of describing most private experiences can be likened to reaching down to a deep well to pick up small fragile crystal figures while you are wearing thick leather mittens.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.
Brian D. McLaren
