#mer

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#certainly #commercial #dance #drum #element

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time. ↗

— Pauly Shore

#camera #first #i #location #mtv

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world. ↗

— Bobby Short

#appreciated #black #did #even #i

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. ↗

— A.A. Gill

#americans #civilization #civilizations #change

There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous. ↗

— Vanna White

#audience #cameras #contestants #depending #five

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. ↗

— William E. Simon

#american people #believe #causes #continue #everything

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. ↗

— Nina Simone

#going #i #i think #important #more

'House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly. ↗

— Molly Sims

#camera #changed #experience #exposure #front

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#been #communities #far #flattened #helped

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream. ↗

— James Sinegal

#american dream #chance #destroy #dream #feel