- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born Quotes
Where you start shapes who you become.
This page gathers quotes about origins in the literal sense — being born into music, born in a specific state or country — alongside a more analytical note on how each generation's tastes differ from the one before it. For more on personal identity, see our Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me - I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt like if I was going to be born any other time that it would be during the '60s or definitely during Woodstock.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
- Fortuitous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one is born hating others.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020