"For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission."

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Kwame Dawes

#Simple Quotes #Space Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.”
“Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.”
“A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.”
“Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.”
“The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.”
“I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.”
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”
“It was the first car accident I had ever been in. It shakes you up a little bit.”

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