Dave Barry
Related DRAKE C. JOYBELL C. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS CONOR OBERST My club reggae shows were going very good. Every show I did was selling out, ... Barry said 'Why don... BILL BASS My last girlfriend was a feminist, vegan punk who broke up with me because she thought I was too ang... LEIGH WHANNELL My friend from Birmingham invited me to lunch with a bunch of folks from Florida. That's when I met ... JOLAINE JONES Yeah. Yeah, that was mine. Like I said, Tracii ( Guns ) gave me CD filled with music and I came up w... LONDON LEGRAND BECK CHANCE THE RAPPER But I tended not to date men who ever showed up for me. KIMBERLY NOVOSEL NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE ACTION BRONSON BETTE MIDLER My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big... NAS CHRISTINA ENGELA FETTY WAP That was kind of like a dry run. We never had it up here (in Northern California), which was actuall... CHARLES CORSIGLIA I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got thi... SUSAN E. ISAACS NICHOLAS SPARKS A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sound... ENNIO MORRICONE It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing s... MANIKA DAVE BARRY ORHAN PAMUK With a good melody... music gets me through everything. DRAKE BELL I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person. DAN MAFFEI I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love th... GLADYS KNIGHT ELVIS COSTELLO He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�... SUZAN TISDALE I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy th... DAN WELLS I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me. WATKIN TUDOR JONES FLEA I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonha... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK ALBERT CAMUS CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to lo... HEATHER DUFFY STONE ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Once the person knows 'I'm too angry,' then (as a professional) you're trying to help them come up w... DAN JOHNSTON JODI PICOULT A person who is angry with one is angry with the other. VIKRANT PARSAI 'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s thi... HANNAH WARE LEO F. BUSCAGLIA 'The Voice' gave me the exposure that YouTube was never able to provide for me, just because... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE COLIN KAEPERNICK NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When ... GEORGE CLINTON This is the President's version of diversity. It's a contest to see who can hate us more. [Bush] cou... THOM LYNCH C. JOYBELL C. E.M. FORSTER CHLOE THURLOW I was very angry. I was hurt inside. You can say like father, like son. Some of my kids were angry t... ALLIE SALLUVINIQ I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens... EARL SWEATSHIRT A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA R&B music became gigantic with people like Marvin Gaye and Barry White and Curtis Mayfield who becam... GEORGE BENSON I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do... M.I.A. I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of ... MONIE LOVE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Music is my best friend. It listens to me, it understand the deepest feelings within me. The melody ... ROSA M. BETANCES I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson W... FRANK MILLER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by frien... FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD ANGELINA JOLIE She said, 'I was angry. It was because of anger.' She is a person with a grudge against society, an ... BERNARDO BATIZ CHELY WRIGHT I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas... DAVE GIBBONS For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a... RANDY OWEN JON PARDI ETHAN COEN ELIZABETH JENNINGS ELIZABETH JENNINGS I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic... RAOUL PECK I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to b... ESTELLE I know this sounds ridiculous, but I like guys with love handles. I hate a washboard stomach - that ... TARA REID WHITNEY HOUSTON Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor... SAM BARRY I don't really like the Giants at all, and I hate Barry Bonds. JEFF ELLSWORTH ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT WAYNE DYER PETE WENTZ That showed me how much any performer should be putting into it. That was really amazing. Angry, ric... DEAN TURNER I hate to say it, because it sounds like I'm bragging, but with the team we have, this year is going... JOE STEWART TAVI GEVINSON NICK CANNON As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE JACKIE ROBINSON I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls. ED OXENBOULD The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE PATRICIA BRIGGS RICHARD WAGNER HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE
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There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to suc... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into... 
Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from... 
With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into ... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, be... 
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always l... 
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss... 
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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds pe... 
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in term... 
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations whi... 
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontie... 
I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of mu... 
I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem... 
...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, th... 
Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap m... 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
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I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could... 
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Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. ... 
I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much
Like something with no living of its own. 
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I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fulle... 
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It's like a bunch of hard-core kids who decided they were going to write pop music. 
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It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had... 
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. 
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. 
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...