Quotes of: Holidays Keyword

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

Bill Laswell

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

Bill Laswell

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Charlie Hunter

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

David Sanborn

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

Evan Rachel Wood

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Laura Mvula

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

Laura Mvula

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

Alan King

I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

Abbey Lincoln

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Al Sharpton

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

Bill Condon

Krebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type." And so, with almost incredible effrontery, he tried to talk to Chuikov as an equal, opening the conversation with the general com...

Barbarossa

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

The Beach

You only grow up by living through the shit that life throws at you

Rachel's Holiday

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine It will be a holiday of the senses

Amigo Warfare

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

Roger Federer

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

Robert Glasper

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.

Robert Glasper

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

Kim Kardashian

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Laura Mvula