Bela Fleck Quotes

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

Bela Fleck

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PeopleThinkWhiteAfricaFirst

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

Joan Collins

LifeQuestionsPersonalSecretMany

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Jerry Saltz

ArtistPerfectGerman

I'm guilty of being perceived as having narrow taste. I went after the artists that I thought were important - Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen and stuff.

Robert Hilburn

ThoughtGuiltyImportantTasteStuff

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

Tom Paulin

GovernmentSympathyMovementHigh

I really like questions. I like people who write scripts because they're asking questions, not because they're giving answers. It's something that I look for.

Rose McIver

PeopleGivingQuestionsLookAsking

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

Diplo

SuccessWeirdAimWillSuccessful

When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films.

Anupam Kher

PeopleAmazingStoryHardshipsPlay

I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

Ashley Madekwe

PlayMorePiecesLikeMixingAround

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

Shanola Hampton

FatherDaughterYouKnowMoreHer

Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko.

Tyson Fury

GoodMeEvilWillOverSee

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

Kid Cudi

FamilyHomeFutureExperienceMe

Typically, market-driven growth spawns urbanisation and leads to migration. Urban centres expand into humongous entities that thrive on an unending supply of energy.

Jamshyd Godrej

GrowthEnergyThriveMigrationUrban

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