Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
Kelela Mizanekristos
Quotes to Explore
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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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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
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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
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Kate Bush
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Nat King Cole
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
Lamar Alexander
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
Oscar Isaac
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
Xavier Rudd
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I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
Tavi Gevinson
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My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that.
Billy Porter
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
Walter Dean Myers
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I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.
Buck Leonard
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We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.
Alan M. Taylor
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R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.
Jean-Philippe Courtois
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Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.
Kelela Mizanekristos
