My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
Naguib Mahfouz
Recitation: by Male by Female
I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.
Joe Bonamassa
I AmBetterPlaySayNeedThan
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
John Grierson
SocietyPlanningProcessViewLoss
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
Stewart Copeland
MusicPeopleYouWantOperaOut
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.
Robert Bringhurst
GoodMoneyPoetryPeopleBetterYou
I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.
Juan Felipe Herrera
WritingWalkingPenDownTrainHand
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
Jon Secada
TimeSongTelevisionWayAirGoing
Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.
William Klein
WorkMePaintingPhotographyLed
I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.
Petra Collins
WomenWorldPowerfulSeeingLook
I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
Peter Gabriel
WritingSongRoadThinkLearnYou
The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.
Richard V. Allen
LeaderPowerTeamTransitionOrderly
In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.
Rick Perry
EvilWorldResponsibleGunsLaws
What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'
Ricky Reed
LearningMusicTomorrowI CanSay
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