Tribute Quotes
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.
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I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.
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In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
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We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
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To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.
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I like to think the Meat Puppets pay tribute to our chaos master, Gary Russell, every night. After all, as another famous puppet once said, "there is no try..."
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I couldn't think of a better way to pay tribute to him, ... I can't imagine his spirit being any happier than to receive this kind of honor.
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Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.
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This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
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I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.
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Thinking about Gary makes me feel good about our shambolic tribute the other night (which was actually fantastic, tapers be damned).
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Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.
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It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
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How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a HUGE Star Trek fan. "Songs Of The Ocean" is my tribute to this great story, and it's based on the Star Trek IV movie, the one in which they go back in time. [The Voyage Home ; It's the one where they bring a pair of whales to the future -ed.]
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
