Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.Questlove
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
Tamara Tunie -
I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
Patrick Ness -
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria de los Angeles -
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard -
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman -
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
Adam Lambert
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas -
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
Kaskade -
I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
Sam Hunt -
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham -
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
Oscar Isaac
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
Zubin Mehta -
I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles -
Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
Usher -
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison -
I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
Edie Falco -
I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.
Elizabeth Thornton -
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol -
Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.
Evan Esar -
I had been wanting to work out with a trainer for a very long time. I always had a good cardio regimen, but I didn't know how to tone up or use weights properly - and I wasn't sure where to start.
Jenna Ushkowitz -
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.
Questlove