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- Nov 07, 2020
Beautiful Quotes
Beauty defined on its own terms, not just appearance.
This set treats beauty broadly: a paradise-like landscape someone calls perfect, questions about whether a ballet career stays beautiful as it winds down, and pushback against assumptions about what beautiful or capable women look like. For beauty tied to affection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to go to bed really early on New Year's Eve. Then I wake up early, drive up while it's still dark, and hike out somewhere beautiful to watch the sunrise. I just take a couple hours and have a post-mortem of the year.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is beautiful but people are crazy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
- Converge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
- Checking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be angry at God. Look at all the love that he gave us. Look at the beautiful planet that he gave us.
- Different Color
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- Nov 07, 2020