Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes
Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!
Vernon Reid
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
Karolyn Grimes
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
Karen Kain
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
Daniel Alarcon
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I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.
Julia Kent
Antony and the Johnsons
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My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
Rebecca Makkai
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This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.
Kristina Laferne Roberts
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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
Walt Whitman
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The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
In the dewy fields the cattle lie
Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer's day.
Walter de La Mare
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Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!
Vernon Reid
