#euro

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#african #african americans #especially #european #generation

And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#asian countries #celtic #celtic music #china #common

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music! ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#debussy #did #duke #duke ellington #ellington

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. ↗

— John Bruton

#century #creation #enjoyed #europe #half

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace. ↗

— John Bruton

#european #european union #invention #most #peace

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#cd #digital #european #friends #hollywood

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. ↗

— James Buchan

#barrel #benighted #days #dependent #europe

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#after #almost #centuries #christ #countries

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#calculators #chivalry #economists #europe #extinguished