Wayne Shorter Quotes
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
Ina Garten
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
Anton Zaslavski
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
Barbara Kruger
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
Young Jeezy
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
Dan Hill
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
B. B. King
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
Imogen Heap
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy
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I like music a lot.
Usain Bolt
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I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.
Leon Uris
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My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.
Eric Kandel
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A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.
Alexander Gardner
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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
Kate Moss
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People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.
Martin Winterkorn
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To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
Wayne Shorter
