"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models."

-- Ruben Blades

#Dancing Quotes #Sound Quotes #Copying Quotes

“I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2008.
“A real man makes his own luck,”
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”

Source : Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage
“It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.”

Source : "Q&A WITH MARIAH CAREY : 'My Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.
“When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.”
“I always tell the players, "We are in the business that's very much like a marathon race only we're gonna be doing it for 260-something days or so." And the race is something you get ready to do. There's gonna be some trial inside of there, but you put yourself through it because ultimately it brings a lot of meaning to your life, it gives a lot of energy to what you're doing.”
“The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.”
“Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice”

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