Neneh Cherry Quotes

I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.

Neneh Cherry

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When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.

Jimmy Cliff

MusicPeopleLivedBeatReggaeWere

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Jesse Jackson

GreatSmallGreat ThingsBornPlaces

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

Joel Silver

MusicTodayPeopleGunFeelYou

I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.

Jello Biafra

MusicYourselfThinkNameDoingYou

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

John Trudell

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For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns.

Amitava Kumar

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I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Stanley Baldwin

FaithI AmWithoutSwimSinkWould

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

Steven Brust

YouJust BecauseMeanOutParanoid

I went to a hypnotist to learn how not to use drinking a pint before you go on as a way of giving you the confidence to just fly at it, irrespective of the fear. That's not a long-term strategy, when you do as many gigs as I do.

Stewart Lee

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My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

Tom Hollander

ParentsPeopleLovelyAspireLike

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

Tom Jenkinson

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I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.

Tom Stoppard

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