Tribute Quotes
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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.
Dr. John
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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.
Alistair Cooke
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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
Etta James
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Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.
George Washington
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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..."
Derrick Bostrom
Meat Puppets
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To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
Ossie Davis
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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.
Allen Iverson
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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.
Cassandra Wilson
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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).
Derrick Bostrom
Meat Puppets
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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.
Adam Jacobs
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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.
George Bird Grinnell
