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🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (politician)

Politics

1934–2019

"Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today."

"I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway."

"A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it — that's possible."

"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic."

"Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect."

"I think America concedes that has sprung from the negro. When we take these things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

"The couples I married, I never chose them, they did."

"I was given so much advice. About how my hair should be, what I should wear, which competitions I should enter, what stuff I should play. None of that was relevant for me. I just had a kind of instinct."

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🇺🇸James McBride (writer)

Literature

b. 1957

"Now he wanted more. That’s the problem with Smelly Ones. They got one thing Animals don’t got. They got ambition."

"I can't tell... All those white tenor players sound alike to me."

"I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit."

"The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell."

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🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (musician)

Music

1951–2024

"Zakir bhai is indeed a phenomenon of our times. It is not surprising that young tabla players are inspired or influenced by him but cloning will only give them a temporary impetus."

"Dave Bartholomew Interview NAMM Oral History Library"

"I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."

"The Official Site of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker"

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

"Don't ask me why, oh why, you're still the one that makes my teardrops dry."

🇬🇧Richard Rodney Bennett

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"I want to have a beneficial effect on your physiology, but it’s not my business what happens after that…It’s my gift to you."

"It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play "Lady Play Your Mandolin" and I'm through."

"I relate to everything. I'm not just jazz, Latin or classical. I really am a fusion of all of those; not today's fusion, but my fusion."

"Dudley Moore at the Internet Movie Database"

"Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you"

"It is not governed by the senseless world of current style that pervades and pollutes popular music, nor is it part of an established hierarchy, so that it is cloistered and protected."

🇦🇹Andreas Paolo Perger

"That did it for me, the applause, the vibe…I said, “that’s it man, that’s what I want to do. Forget the art."

"I ain’t scared of Beethoven or nobody when it comes to composing."

"Chick Corea's Commencement Address at the Berklee College of Music"

"They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit."

"You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair."

"Stewart Copeland is an amazing drummer. I just wish he didn't think he was amazing. Sting is a lovely bloke. We've become friends. I felt honored to be on stage with him at Live Aid."

"It became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat."

"All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King."

"As I began to move away from a meatheavy diet to a plantbased menu, it felt as if the doors to truly delicious foods were finally opening up."

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