- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.
- Nov 07, 2020
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020