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I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. ~ Emilie Autumn
Music History quotes by Emilie Autumn
Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back. ~ Shawn Amos
Music History quotes by Shawn Amos
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' ~ Tim Cahill
Music History quotes by Tim Cahill
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music. ~ Mstislav Rostropovich
Music History quotes by Mstislav Rostropovich
We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones. ~ Patti Smith
Music History quotes by Patti Smith
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. ~ Paul Whiteman
Music History quotes by Paul Whiteman
History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music. ~ Stephen King
Music History quotes by Stephen King
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. ~ Spike Lee
Music History quotes by Spike Lee
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. ~ Jackson Browne
Music History quotes by Jackson Browne
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history. ~ Steve Earle
Music History quotes by Steve Earle
Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be. ~ Pharoahe Monch
Music History quotes by Pharoahe Monch
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history. ~ R. Kelly
Music History quotes by R. Kelly
There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist. ~ Kent Beck
Music History quotes by Kent Beck
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. ~ Dave Grohl
Music History quotes by Dave Grohl
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. ~ Etta James
Music History quotes by Etta James
Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something so slight as a single vocal quaver or icy harpsichord interjection. ~ Geoffrey O'Brien
Music History quotes by Geoffrey O'Brien
Last night I snuck an orchestra into the elevator at my apartment. We made elevator music history until Marvin got his oboe caught in the door and Mrs. Hoffstead started singing "Yes We Have No Bananas Today" in the hall so loud the police were called in from Equador. ~ Jarod Kintz
Music History quotes by Jarod Kintz
It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door. ~ Kaskade
Music History quotes by Kaskade
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from. ~ Ricky Skaggs
Music History quotes by Ricky Skaggs
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. ~ Gavin Bryars
Music History quotes by Gavin Bryars
This is ... an attempt to find some of the important fault lines in the narrative of "recorded history"
the points where people with access to the technology decided that *this* was how recordings should sound, and *this* is what it means to make a record. Ultimately, this is the story of what it means to make a recording of music
a *representation* of music
and declare it to be music itself. ~ Greg Milner
Music History quotes by Greg Milner
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes. ~ Evan Parker
Music History quotes by Evan Parker
So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history. For today we announce of Tidal, the first ever artist-owned, global music and entertainment platform. ~ Alicia Keys
Music History quotes by Alicia Keys
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. ~ Renee Fleming
Music History quotes by Renee Fleming
If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that. ~ Fiona Apple
Music History quotes by Fiona Apple
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? ~ Gotye
Music History quotes by Gotye
The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done. ~ Aleksey Igudesman
Music History quotes by Aleksey Igudesman
I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it's simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that's been expanding musically and culturally ... People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom. ~ Joy Williams
Music History quotes by Joy Williams
I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead. ~ Billy Joel
Music History quotes by Billy Joel
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn about them in music history class. Those things are defined at least decades after they happen. And even then, it's a fallacy because when you're in the moment, when you're in a thriving scene of musicians, inevitably everyone is going to be doing something completely different from everyone else ~ Missy Mazzoli
Music History quotes by Missy Mazzoli
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them. ~ Brian Eno
Music History quotes by Brian Eno
Band has really been the one thing that allows me to experience somewhat of a distraction. They say music heals, right? I'm able to exist in all my weirdness right in the middle of a big crowd of people, but all I really have to focus on is playing my own part, marching with the correct foot, and being where I'm supposed to be on the field. - Rigby Raines ~ R.K. Slade
Music History quotes by R.K. Slade
The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music. ~ Ryan Tedder
Music History quotes by Ryan Tedder
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it. ~ Tim Rice
Music History quotes by Tim Rice
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me. ~ Eddi Reader
Music History quotes by Eddi Reader
I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history. ~ John Lloyd Young
Music History quotes by John Lloyd Young
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. ~ Russell Smith
Music History quotes by Russell Smith
The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards. ~ Thalia
Music History quotes by Thalia
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ~ Mike Figgis
Music History quotes by Mike Figgis
I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands. ~ Nate Ruess
Music History quotes by Nate Ruess
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ~ Brian Eno
Music History quotes by Brian Eno
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on. ~ John Lydon
Music History quotes by John Lydon
My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music. ~ Sam Shepard
Music History quotes by Sam Shepard
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. ~ LL Cool J
Music History quotes by LL Cool J
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. ~ Steve Lacy
Music History quotes by Steve Lacy
I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music. ~ Mark Billingham
Music History quotes by Mark Billingham
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well. ~ Tim Cahill
Music History quotes by Tim Cahill
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime. ~ Mike Love
Music History quotes by Mike Love
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. ~ Gracie Gold
Music History quotes by Gracie Gold
During the so-called Jazz Age, most of the music's key exponents focused their creative energy on soloing not bandleading, on improvisation not orchestration, on an interplay between individual instruments not between sections.
[...] Commercial pressures, rather than artistic prerogatives, stand out as the spur that forced many early jazz players (including Armstrong, Beiderbecke, and Hines) to embrace the big band idiom. But even in the new setting, they remained improvisers, first and foremost, not orchestrators or composers. ~ Ted Gioia
Music History quotes by Ted Gioia
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. ~ Iggy Pop
Music History quotes by Iggy Pop
You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing, reading, science, art, music, math, social studies. By presenting myself as a writer with wide ranging passions - for astronomy, volcanology, art, music, history, and community service - I hope to inspire not only budding writers but also budding scientists, artists, activists... ~ Elizabeth Rusch
Music History quotes by Elizabeth Rusch
The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it. ~ Lindi Ortega
Music History quotes by Lindi Ortega
When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went with my roommate ... These guys said, 'We're going to this club. Just don't go in the washroom.' It was CBGB. I had no idea what it was or the history of all the music. All I knew was this was my first 21-and-over club and I managed to get in! ~ Stana Katic
Music History quotes by Stana Katic
I have always been obsessed with America, the geography, the history, and, of course, the music. I've been lucky enough to have travelled through the country a lot, and, in a kind of anorak way, I've noted which states I've visited and which ones I've been to most often and all that sort of detail. ~ Tim Rice
Music History quotes by Tim Rice
As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again. ~ Charlie Pierce
Music History quotes by Charlie Pierce
Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity. ~ LL Cool J
Music History quotes by LL Cool J
Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing ~ Led Zeppelin
Music History quotes by Led Zeppelin
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings. ~ Samantha Shannon
Music History quotes by Samantha Shannon
Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is. ~ Al Pacino
Music History quotes by Al Pacino
My dad doesn't have an iota of the depressive in him. He just depresses other people. Nothing brings him down. But this can't be true. I think it just comes out when absolutely no one else is around. It always seemed that while I knew he loved us a lot, my father actually needed nothing to be happy except books. There was enough in literature to challenge, entertain, amuse and inspire a man for a lifetime. Books and music were simply enough to sustain anyone was what he radiated. Humor, love, tragedy, it was all contained therein. And if all he needed was books, then he probably wouldn't mind if he lost the house and the wife and the whole life. Because the story was more important than the family. The story being that he was going to write the Great American Novel and finally be important, and in being important, he would be loved. Willing to lose his family to be loved by his family. Oh, the tragic blunder of this. It could almost drive someone mad. Wait, it did drive someone mad. ~ Jeanne Darst
Music History quotes by Jeanne Darst
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot. ~ Jane Chen
Music History quotes by Jane Chen
The finest line of poetry ever uttered in the history of this whole damn country was said by Canada Bill Jones in 1853, in Baton Rouge, while he was being robbed blind in a crooked game of faro. George Devol, who was, like Canada Bill, not a man who was averse to fleecing the odd sucker, drew Bill aside and asked him if he couldn't see that the game was crooked. And Canada Bill sighed, and shrugged his shoulders, and said, 'I know. But it's the only game in town.' And he went back to the game. ~ Neil Gaiman
Music History quotes by Neil Gaiman
We're here to have a ball. ~ Art Blakey
Music History quotes by Art Blakey
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. ~ Frederik Pohl
Music History quotes by Frederik Pohl
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter's earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like. ~ Thomas Harris
Music History quotes by Thomas Harris
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote. ~ Agnes Varda
Music History quotes by Agnes Varda
And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation. ~ David Mutti Clark
Music History quotes by David Mutti Clark
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense. ~ Robert Baden-Powell
Music History quotes by Robert Baden-Powell
sheets, I keep hearing something - or someone - calling, just loud enough to pierce the walls. The voice is surely something more than wind, curling and twisting itself into highs and lows, like muffled music. I know that if only I could lean closer, words would become clear, distinct. Words that wouldn't break apart before I can wrap my mind around them. ~ Victoria Schwab
Music History quotes by Victoria Schwab
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. ~ Pieter Geyl
Music History quotes by Pieter Geyl
Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction. ~ Elvis Costello
Music History quotes by Elvis Costello
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. ~ Tony Snow
Music History quotes by Tony Snow
But can't you even imagine what it must feel like to have a true home? I don't mean heaven. I mean a real earthly home. Not some fortress you bought and built up and have to keep everybody locked in or out. A real home. Not some place you went to and invaded and slaughtered people to get. Not some place you claimed, snatched because you got the guns. Not some place you stole from the people living there, but your own home, where if you go back past your great-great-grandparents, past theirs, and theirs, past the whole of Western history, past the beginning of organized knowledge, past pyramids and poison bows, on back to when rain was new, before plants forgot they could sing and birds thought they were fish, back when God said Good! Good!-- there, right there where you know your own people were born and lived and died. Imagine that, Pat. That place. Who was God talking to if not to my people living in my home?"
"You preaching, Reverend."
"No, I'm talking to you, Pat. I'm talking to you. ~ Toni Morrison
Music History quotes by Toni Morrison
A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend. ~ Maya Angelou
Music History quotes by Maya Angelou
The history of the world is the story of people getting off track. ~ Kirk Cameron
Music History quotes by Kirk Cameron
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope. ~ Rush Limbaugh
Music History quotes by Rush Limbaugh
George dutifully dusted the marks from the expensive rug and retired to the kitchen to await a grave and disapproving Collins, wishing with all of his boyish heart that he had applied for the stables. Cleaning stalls had to be beneficial exercise, and surely one must become accustomed to the smells...eventually. ~ Sarah Brazytis
Music History quotes by Sarah Brazytis
Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. ~ Michael Buble
Music History quotes by Michael Buble
Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession. ~ Stephen Jay Gould
Music History quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
I'm not really interested in religion or history or science or mathematics or psychology or politics or geography. I feel I am above them all, except geography. Geography is above me for now. ~ Bill Callahan
Music History quotes by Bill Callahan
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. ~ William Faulkner
Music History quotes by William Faulkner
People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose. ~ Carlos Santana
Music History quotes by Carlos Santana
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party. ~ Barbara Jordan
Music History quotes by Barbara Jordan
Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared.
A great cry came from beyond the walls that were punctuated by musket blasts and Mullone readied himself for the guns to leap into action. Mullone felt a tremor. The ground shook and then the first rebels poured through the gates like an oncoming tide. Mullone saw the leading man; both hands gripping a green banner, face contorted with zeal. The flag had a white cross in the centre of the green field and the initials JF below it. John Fitzstephen. Then, there were more men behind him, tens, then scores. And then time seemed to slow.
The guns erupted barely twenty feet from them.
Later on, Mullone would remember the great streaks of flame leap from the muzzles to lick the air and all of the charging rebels were shredded and torn apart in one terrible instant. Balls ricocheted on stone and great chunks were gouged out by the bullets. Blood sprayed on the walls as far back as the arched gateway, limbs were shorn off, and Mullone watched in horror as a bloodied head tumbled down the sloped street towards the barricade.
'Jesus sweet suffering Christ!' Cahill gawped at the carnage as the echo of the big guns resonated like a giant's beating heart.
Trooper O'Shea bent to one side and vomited at the sight of the twitching, bleeding and unrecognisable lumps that had once been men. A man staggered with both arms missing. Another crawled back to the ga ~ David Cook
Music History quotes by David        Cook
Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women! ~ Medea Benjamin
Music History quotes by Medea Benjamin
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man's life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the memory of past deeds? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Music History quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
But what is Pacem in Terris's most important contribution in the context of the genesis of Gaudium et Spesis its repeated recourse to'the signs of the times' as measures and tools with which to comprehend the reality of a constantly changing world. The innovation of this approach lies in its implied recommendation to study in all seriousness contemporary reality and society in order to determine in which way the values of the Gospel have materialized in today's world. Rather than relying on pre-established and traditional doctrine to judge present-day reality, Catholic believers are enjoined to place trust in investigatory methods that could be described as sociological, historical, and anthropological, before making value judgements on the phenomena of today's world ~ Gerd-Rainer Horn
Music History quotes by Gerd-Rainer Horn
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