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Donald Byrd Quotes

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1932 - February 4, 2013

Topics

Music I Can Numbers Hip-Hop Turn

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Life People Trying You Nervous Out

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Andrei Codrescu

Me New New Orleans Corrupt Because

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

Music People Feel Jazz Some People

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

History American Comfortable Painful

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

Creative Identity People Think You

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

Good Book Now Years Out Up

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Father Mother Yes Doctors Both Were

When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.

Government People Think Digital

I think it's safe to say that the Russians are extremely interested in anything that has to do with the U.S. political system. And it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are in many other systems.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Think Political Say Out Anything

Not to age myself, but I remember vividly 'Schoolhouse Rock!' and entrust my grammar to it.

Age Myself Remember Rock Grammar

When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.

People Internet Like Dealing

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.

Girl Beautiful Myself Support Think

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