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music
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed. Andre Previn
music-is escapism private-things
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. Agnes Obel
music boredom people
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom? Agnes Repplier
musician financial affair
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs Charlie Byrd
music song thinking
I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that. Charlie Byrd
music doctors people
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him. Charlie Byrd
music mean emotional
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know. Charlie Byrd
music brother django
Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does. Charlie Byrd
music design wish
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life. Charlie Byrd
freedom history african-american
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. Carol Moseley Braun
freedom touching perception
The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable. Carlos Castaneda
freedom fear pain
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine
freedom loss people
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. Alan K. Simpson
freedom science blood
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. Alan Kay
freedom women equality
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. Charlotte Bronte
freedom government civilization
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government. Charles Sumner
freedom men break-through
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. Charles de Gaulle
freedom political-will order
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Charles de Gaulle
race white wife
Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store! Carlos Mencia
race warning world
That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning. C. S. Lewis
race intelligence depravity
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. Agnes Repplier
race justice devil
Race prejudice is the devil unchained. Charles W. Chesnutt
race two perfect
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality. Charles Edward Merriam
race
We must go fast, because the race is against time. Anna Held
race games black
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. Branch Rickey
race landscape sometimes
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. Diane Wakoski
race effort nuclear
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts. Dianne Feinstein