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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.


James Weldon Johnson


#american #classic #desire #felt #form

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?


Kevin Johnson


#background #bar #become #classical #day

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.


Samuel Johnson


#literary #literary men #men #over #parole

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!


Norah Jones


#classical music #far #genetically #grew #i

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.


Talib Kweli


#albums #better #black #both #classic

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.


Emmy Rossum


#anybody #anywhere #bands #classical #david

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.


William Safire


#america #arts #audience #challenge #classic

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.


George Saintsbury


#any #best #call #classical #comparative

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.


Gus Van Sant


#before #characters #classic #direct #doing

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.


L'Wren Scott


#customer #important #rely #you #your






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