Aloe Blacc Quotes
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.Aloe Blacc
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
Barbara Lynn -
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
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 -
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
Candace Bushnell -
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
Adam Grant
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken -
Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
Gabby Douglas -
I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
Daniel Boulud -
Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
Nate Berkus -
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
Obie Trice -
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman -
I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.
Felicity Jones -
If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
Maira Kalman -
All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
D. B. Sweeney -
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
Adam Lambert
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Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.
Ray J -
The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.
David Sedaris -
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
Aloe Blacc