Quotes of: Modern-music Keyword

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and stark violence of the cross that discloses the living Christ. Revelation, like creation, arises not merely out of nothingness but by...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.

Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems; some talk about monkeys and poo--though those people may also have real problems.

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

Before going home with a guy, give him a blow job. Guys are always more relaxed after a blow job. (You're totally welcome, guys. P.S. Girls can't see this sentence!!!!!)

The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

How Proust Can Change Your Life

I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism mean...

Paul Rand

The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call ...

Rick Riordan

Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still pa...

Noah Feldman

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of ...

Jerry Saltz

I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a r...

Daniel Pipes

I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if y...

Shai Agassi

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech...

James Fenton

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

Linda Ronstadt

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Joe Elliott

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

Juliana Hatfield

The folk music definition has changed in this fast music world and musical styles are blending really quickly.

Trey Anastasio

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

Samuel Larsen

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Afrika Bambaataa