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Laura Mvula Quotes

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: April 23, 1986

Topics

Music Style Together Church Rock

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

Music Beautiful Me Writing Listen

Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

King Cell Phone Key Picture Camera

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

Music Friends Heat Taste Get Very

It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.

People Think Demons Create Become

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

Donald Johanson

Men Man Wise Think Wonder Sometimes

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

Opportunity Dinner World Rest Think

I'm really into fashion, and there's this fascination the world over around this idea of the French woman.

Brigitte Macron

Woman World Fashion Over Idea

I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.

Flower Power Training Child Hair

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Corruption Never Been Compulsory

The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85.

Mountain Climb Break Would Still

If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up.

Competition Picture Plan Remember

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

Richard Simmons

Me Ice Ice Cream Island Salad Hot

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