African Music famous quotes

Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good memory of it, then to me that's a great song.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

You have to respect all your competitors.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.