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Matthew Shipp Quotes

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1960

Topics

Name Perfect More Monk Fit Than

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Health Tired Sick Corruption Matter

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

Music Time New York Interesting You

I love 'Cabaret' and 'George M!' They're both incredible as far as I'm concerned.

Love Far Incredible Concerned Both

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Life Nature British Blunt Pragmatic

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

You Protest Would Argue Please Had

I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

Donatella Versace

Work Hard Work People Fashion Saying

We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.

Courtney Barnett

Culture Think Trying You Way Even

My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.

Love School Fun Just Because Jazz

I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning.

Alice McDermott

Faith People Strong Think Blindly

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

Serena Williams

Feel I Can Improve Pretty Things

A lot of celebrities promote their films to entertainment reporters and feel like they need to entertain them.

Feel Entertainment Need Like Promote

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Richard Branson

School Understanding Old Years Left

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