Quotes with melody-driven

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  • Hyman G. Rickover Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Barbra Streisand I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bruno Mars I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Buck Owens I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Sam Walton I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Catton I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Jonathan Miller I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I'm as pure as the driven slush.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Billy Collins If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • B. C. Forbes If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Branford Marsalis If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Cat Stevens In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bruno Mars In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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