Jon Batiste Quotes

I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.

Jon Batiste

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LifeGoodMusicTogetherBornPlay

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

Jessamyn West

LiveWorldSickUnderstandTwoWell

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

MusicGodSoulEndGloryAim

She who has never loved has never lived.

John Gay

LovedNeverSheLivedWho

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

Melanie Chisholm

FunnyMeMy OwnReflectOwnBeing

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

Ann Wagner

ImmigrationIllegal ImmigrationRecord

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Max Heindel

LifeMusicLoseWillMoreCharm

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Stanley Crouch

CultureInclusionNaiveEverything

There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.

Sue Wicks

MeCharityDoingI CanStopHard

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson

KnowledgeElectricalTelephoneRadio

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

Russell Brand

GayJust BecauseKindNarcissism

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Lou Holtz

SportsFootballPictureLookPlay

My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.

Lisa Lutz

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