John Trudell Quotes

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

John Trudell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 15, 1946 - December 8, 2015

Topics

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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

John Burroughs

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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

Joel Kinnaman

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I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

Robert Smith

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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Ann Oakley

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London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

Steve Coogan

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The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.

Simon Hoggart

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Way back when I was working at the dump, I saw that, even when living among the trash, that some people would decide to choose joy in their lives.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

Julia Voth

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Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.

Lisa Jewell

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In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

Joseph Altuzarra

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We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.

Jonathan Ive

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I watch a lot of shows on Bravo - I'm not just saying that. I love 'Top Chef.' I love 'Real Housewives of Atlanta.' That's my favorite.

Chris March

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