Burning Spear quote: "Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that."

To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN

The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY

I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI

If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...

For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting ...
CLIVE ANDERSON

I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY

I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS

37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN

With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT

When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER

You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN

I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
COMPAY SEGUNDO

There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But ...
GREG BEHRENDT

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE

Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyon...
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass gr...
GEORGE ELIOT

The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest...
SONNY TERRY

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also west...
MARTIN JACQUES

He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

I grow herbs near the back door, and you can grow a wonderful selection of herbs and window boxes......
MARY BERRY

Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majes...
VIOLETTE LEDUC

It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96

Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's system...
SEAMUS HEANEY

There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The important lesson is that this is a homegrown company. If we get them growing here, the roots gro...
BOB TREZISE

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a p...
RAVI SHANKAR

15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues ...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, bu...
SAVION GLOVER

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's gi...
STEVE WINWOOD

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it&#...
ALICE WATERS

I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN

You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER

It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the inte...
DAMIAN MARLEY

It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN

Love is just like the flower; it has hidden depths that we rarely ever explore. Beneath the surface ...
CAROL OATES

It's a good thing and it's actually the second time that I'll be there. It's really good for the mus...
BURNING SPEAR

it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON

The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music a...
BABYFACE

Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex...
JOHN MELLENCAMP

32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I reall...
JAMES C. DOBSON

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON

Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL

See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS

He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
ERIN HUNTER

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also t...
BILL WALTON

Success is like a seed, it waits for the right conditions that will allow it to grow.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE

The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, ...
DIZZY GILLESPIE

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL

I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the l...
RIZ AHMED

If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!
KAMAL KHANZADA

She told me to find a girl worth fighting for. The one that doesn’t come easy.
JAMIE MCGUIRE

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN

To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really...
FLUME

A maturing process, and growth, is always painful. You ask any teenager, they will tell you, and it&...
ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA

28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON

It is the giving wolf, who is also the killing wolf....
MASTER CHIEF 117

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is dif...
YAO MING

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI

The corn burning market is good for everybody, I'm growing the corn and I'm burning it. I'm loving i...
ANDY MCKIMMY

Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
DEYTH BANGER

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.
MARK TWAIN

This is a grass roots initiative that will potentially expand nationwide. The registry will expedite...
JANET OLSZEWSKI

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happines...
OSHO

I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like f...
KEN MARINO

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ...
TOM WAITS

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracia...
JOHN LYDON

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

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Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

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