Dholak Music Quotes & Sayings

In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists. — Machel Montano

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. — Archibald MacLeish

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you
are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap — Dean Koontz

One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing — John Piper

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking. — Larry Fessenden

It's probably not easy for a woman to understand what it's like to be a man. Imagine you're starving, and someone puts a huge buffet in front of you. There's delicious, mouth-watering food all around you, and it's really really hard not to eat it all. That's what it's like to be a man around attractive women. The urge to want to hump everything that moves is part of a man's natural programming. It's a deep-seated hunger. To suppress that hunger takes civilization and a lot of willpower. — Oliver Markus

My passport's green. — Seamus Heaney

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better. — Kevin Durant

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure. — Chuck Klosterman

The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director. — Barry Nelson

This was just the way I imagined myself around Nancy Grace
available, yet distant. — Chelsea Handler

Everyone who is 12 and reads a book has a good chance to get 13 or even 70 and read it again — Burkhard Spinnen