"I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America."

-- Quincy Jones

#America Quotes #Long Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes

“The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.”

Source : Gerald G. Jampolsky, Diane V. Cirincione (1992). “Wake-Up Calls”, Hay House Incorporated
“Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.”

Source : Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf
“Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.”
“Life is the mode of action of proteins.”
“Listen to your Own Heart Concerning the Path you Wish to Travel.”
“God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.”
“The history of one is the history of all.”

Source : Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield
“God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals”

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