#na

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#bible #had #i #jonah #said

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#audience #avant-garde #because #certain #considered

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#composer #find #i #i am #name

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#french #generation #heard #i #reacting

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#another way #feelings #lives #making #music

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#century #into #music #now #tonal

I have to choose songs that represent my personality. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#i #personality #represent #songs

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#enough #fools #knaves #live #more

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#gotten #jimmy #jimmy carter #might #probably

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something. ↗

— Michael Buble

#any #audience #because #connect #emotionally